World History
So I suppose this is where I give you a disclaimer. I am not Islamic but have been fascinated with the call to prayer since I was a small child and woke up to the chanting each day for four years when I was living in Iran. Even visiting Islamic countries today it is still somewhat comforting and I really have no idea what is being said.
That being said when we tell our students that there is a call to prayer five times daily it is a little hard to really understand until you listen to the chanting in the video above.
When my family and I visited Istanbul last summer we stayed a block from the Hagia Sophia and got to hear three competing prayers at once from "overlapping" mosques as you can hear in the video below.
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World History
Islamic Call to Prayer
So I suppose this is where I give you a disclaimer. I am not Islamic but have been fascinated with the call to prayer since I was a small child and woke up to the chanting each day for four years when I was living in Iran. Even visiting Islamic countries today it is still somewhat comforting and I really have no idea what is being said.
That being said when we tell our students that there is a call to prayer five times daily it is a little hard to really understand until you listen to the chanting in the video above.
When my family and I visited Istanbul last summer we stayed a block from the Hagia Sophia and got to hear three competing prayers at once from "overlapping" mosques as you can hear in the video below.
- Live Mecca Stream For Your Students During Ramadan
...
- Hagia Sophia: If These Walls Could Talk
Check out this amazing and engaging five minute animated Ted lesson about the Hagia Sophia. Kelly Wall reviews the stories behind the Hagia Sophia and tells a terrific story that starts in Constantinople and ends in Istanbul. Thanks to David Walp for...
- Amazing Video On The Hagia Sophia
This is a super video which explains the history of Istanbul, but also of the Hagia Sophia. It also show the tremendous mosaics, architecture and windows in it. Best of all it is only four minutes long! ...
- Calling Long Distance Parents
Increasingly my students' parents have long distance numbers that I need to call to reach them. While my school will provide me with a long distance calling card, it is much quicker to just go into my gmail and call from there. As you...
- Use Gmail To Make Free Long Distance Calls
If you are like me then you are having to call many long distance numbers just to reach parents who, like their kids, are increasingly keeping their old phone numbers when they move. My school district gives us a long code we can use for long distance...