Minneapolis allows call to prayer to be publicly broadcast five times per day. Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images Minneapolis recently became the first major U.S. city to allow the “adhan,” or Muslim ...

For nearly 500 years, the walls inside Alhambra Palace in Spain’s Granada have not heard the Islamic call to prayer. That all changed when Syrian Mouaz Al-Nass sounded the Adhan last Thursday. A video ...

As the countdown to the holy month of Ramadan has begun, Dubai has launched the second edition of an initiative that aims to strengthen families' role in nurturing national identity and instilling ...

RIYADH: More than 21,000 people from 162 countries have so far applied to take part in two prestigious Saudi-organized religious competitions. Launched earlier this year by Turki Al-Sheikh, chairman ...

Those wishing to compete in the competition, which is organized and supervised by GEA, can apply electronically from anywhere in the world. Otr Elkalam is the first competition to combine Holy Quran ...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia , April 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, in the closing episode of the Otr Elkalam show, the largest religious competition in the world, whose episodes were broadcast from the Saudi ...

The competition which took place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, achieves 6 Guinness Certificates with a pool prize of US$3.3 million. Today, in the final episode of the Otr Elkalam Show, the world’s largest ...

Nearly 90 years old, Em Ali stands out among kingdom's prominent muezzins Cairo: An aged Saudi man is widely seen as an epitome of dedication to mosques and performing prayers there for long decades.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, March 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The wooden boards of the Holy Quran in Marrakech and the recitation sessions in the old Saturday market near the Moroccan city of Beni Mellal ...