Cairo:
Can Cairo's 4,000 mosques all sing the same tune?
That's just what Egypt's government is aiming to do, beginning an ambitious project on Thursday to unify the timing and sound of the Islamic call to prayer across the sprawling city of 18 million people.
The project, six years in the making, was meant to start in Cairo's northern suburbs on Wednesday, the first day of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, but system glitches and a communication breakdown delayed it by a day.
The US$175,000 project will equip each mosque with a receiver that will broadcast a single call to prayer from a downtown studio. Sheik Salem Abdel-Galil, the official at the Ministry of Religious Endowments who has done more than anyone to push the project forward, said every one of the city's mosques should be on the system by the end of Ramadan.
That's just what Egypt's government is aiming to do, beginning an ambitious project on Thursday to unify the timing and sound of the Islamic call to prayer across the sprawling city of 18 million people.
The project, six years in the making, was meant to start in Cairo's northern suburbs on Wednesday, the first day of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, but system glitches and a communication breakdown delayed it by a day.
The US$175,000 project will equip each mosque with a receiver that will broadcast a single call to prayer from a downtown studio. Sheik Salem Abdel-Galil, the official at the Ministry of Religious Endowments who has done more than anyone to push the project forward, said every one of the city's mosques should be on the system by the end of Ramadan.
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