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AUDIO: Muslim call to prayer arrives to Minneapolis soundscape

Dalha Abdi, 15, calls the adhan, or Islamic call to prayer, on Thursday, May 12, 2022, at the Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center in south Minneapolis. The call exhorts men to go to the closest mosque five times a day for prayer, which is one of the Five Pillars of Islam. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

Dalha Abdi, 15, calls the adhan, or Islamic call to prayer, on Thursday, May 12, 2022, at the Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center in south Minneapolis. The call exhorts men to go to the closest mosque five times a day for prayer, which is one of the Five Pillars of Islam. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

 
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This spring Minneapolis became the first large city in the United States to allow the Islamic call to prayer to be broadcast publicly on loudspeakers. So far only one mosque is doing so, three times a day. But more of the city’s two dozen mosques are getting ready to start their own broadcasts.

They are setting up rooftop sound systems and readying meetings to consult with neighbors, hoping to avoid the kind of backlash that has occurred elsewhere.

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(AP Audio/Jessie Wardarski, Walter Ratliff and Giovanna Dell’Orto)

This audio story focuses on the transforming soundscape that is testament to the large and growing Muslim community in Minneapolis, home to big numbers of refugees from war-torn Somalia.