For our final Istanbul posting (#6),  we decided to save the Call for Prayer that we hear so often.

Our hotel is in the old city district of Istanbul.  We have a very small mosque across the street and the very large Hagia Sophia & Blue Mosques nearby.  Daily Call for Prayers occur at sunrise, mid-day, late afternoon, sunset and finally, around 11 pm.  The first recording is the mid-day call and was recorded near the Hagia Sophia mosque.   The second is an evening call (much shorter) recorded from our hotel window.   There seems to be coordination between the 3 mosques as only 1 of the 3 will be broadcasting at a time during the 2-6 minute calls.

We really enjoyed hearing them and we looked forward to them daily – although we didn’t get out of bed to record the sunrise calls.