Call to prayer video – Stone Town, Zanzibar

Islam first, pre-dawn, call to prayer from a mosque in Stone Town on Zanzibar

OK — this is an experiment. Trying to link up a video I took from my Facebook page.

If this works, this is the call to prayer in Stone Town on Zanzibar island at the mosque right next to the hotel I stayed at. It was around 5:15 every morning and it was the most fabulous sound to wake up to. Even at that hour.

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  1. bora November 17, 2010 at 5:17 pm #

    It says video is unavaliable due to privacy settings or it’s removed from Facebook.

    • Michael Hodson November 17, 2010 at 6:07 pm #

      Hmmmm — I think I have the settings on properly. Having some friends of mine that are also not FB friends of mine see if they can view it. Thanks.

  2. Leslie (Downtown Traveler) May 6, 2011 at 7:17 am #

    It works for me! Lovely sound :)
    Leslie (Downtown Traveler) recently posted..Photo essay- Revolutionary street art in Cairo

    • Michael Hodson May 7, 2011 at 6:34 am #

      I just simply love it.

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