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 ...

The Minneapolis City Council unanimously voted to allow the Muslim call to prayer to be broadcast five times a day for each of the five daily Muslim prayers, including at sunrise and at night. With ...

Muslims around the world are observing Ramadan this month. For believers, the holy month is about much more than fasting. It's a time for reflection and compassion, to give to the less fortunate, to ...

In Islam, Fajr is the first prayer of the day, one of the five daily obligatory prayers for Muslims. The Fajr adhan — the call to prayer — begins right at dawn, and is to be performed before the sun ...

Minneapolis mosques would be able to broadcast the adhan — the Islamic call to prayer — five times a day under a proposed ordinance unanimously approved March 29 by the City Council's Public Health ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Minneapolis on Thursday became the first major American city to permit unfettered broadcast of the Muslim call to prayer, allowing the adhan to be heard over speakers five times a day, ...

In Rovaniemi, Islam meets the extraordinary rhythms of the Arctic Circle. On January 4, 2026, this northern city—which often ...

Mosques in Minneapolis will soon be allowed to publicly broadcast the adhan, or Islamic call to prayer, five times a day following a unanimous vote by the Minneapolis City Council to amend what ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. Minneapolis recently became the first major U.S. city to allow the “adhan,” or ...