Five times a day in the 83 square mile city of Cairo, over 30,000 muezzins call out the adhan, or call to prayer, calling believers to
come and to pray. This ‘Isha (night) adhan was recorded near the
Sheikh Abdullah Mosque in the neighbourhood of Gamaliya in
Islamic Cairo. The recording captures the voices of the muezzins
of Cairo, all of whose calls begin a few seconds apart from one
another. The muezzins calling from far away mosques and
mosques closest to location can be heard: please control the
volume accordingly.Audio recordings from 10 locations in Cairo representing the city-wide call to prayer (over 30,000 muezzins reciting each of the 5 times per day) as heard from each area/neighbourhood, with supporting photographs of the locations and what is seen from said location. (While each of the 10 locations generally only has one
adhan represented here, the Gamaliya location has more elaborate documentation)Hartley Film Foundation, National Geographic All Roads Film Project, Lucius and Eva Eastman Fun
