THE TELEGRAPH: Cairo is to synchronise the call to prayer across the city's 4,500 mosques using computers to put an end to out of tune and out of time muezzin.
For more than a millennium, the competing calls to prayer intoned from Cairo's thousands of minarets have been one of the city's most distinctive features.
The government this weekend begins a long-heralded project to synchronise the five daily calls to prayer across the city.
Neighbourhood by neighbourhood, the ministry of religious endowments is linking all of the mosques in the city, the largest in the Arab world, to a central computerised feed.
"Egyptians have a problem with timing," said Sheikh Salem Abdel-Galil, the ministry official behind the proposal. >>> Richard Spencer | Friday, August 13, 2010
