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sonz
04-30-2006, 09:10 AM
The Egyptian government will establish a centralized call to the five daily prayers that will be heard throughout Cairo via loudspeakers, AFP reported.

Muslim prayer calls are transmitted via loudspeakers of different mosques five times a day. The muezzins, who deliver the prayer calls, often announce the prayers two or three minutes apart, causing much confusion.

Under the new plan, one muezzin would call for the prayers and his voice would be broadcast at different mosques in the Greater Cairo area.

The committee set to examine the project, including the technical aspects of its implementation, has completed its work and details about how officials plan to carry it out will be announced on Sunday, media reports said.

Egypt's Religious Endowments Minister Mahmud Zaqzuq is expected to sign a contract on Sunday for the delivery of around 4,000 loudspeakers.

Zaqzuq will also announce a date for the project to start and list the names of the muezzins with the most "melodious voices" who have been selected to make the prayer calls.

He will also answer relevant questions relating to the "legality" of the project from an Islamic perspective and the government's goals for implanting the plan in the first place.

The plan was introduced in 2004 but has been delayed due to opposition from some Muslim clerics who said that the muezzins would lose their jobs.

But Zaqzuq says the muezzins could re-train as imams, which are currently in short supply.

One of Egypt's top clerics have said the plan does not contravene Islamic law. "It is religiously legitimate... that the city has one prayer call," Grand Mufti Ali Gomoa said in a statement last year.

Egypt’s religious affairs ministry is in charge of about 90,000 mosques and prayer centers throughout the country. Some 4,000 mosques are in the Greater Cairo area and will be the initial target of the project.
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