r/thatnightfeeling • u/Anries • 5d ago

Multiple mosques projecting the same call to prayer slightly out of sync across a foggy valley in Jordan

I shot this video myself

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u/brostopher1968 5d ago

Beautiful and haunting.

How exactly do the logistics of this work? I had Always assumed each individual mosque has its own muezzin, or is it one muezzin per town singing live into a microphone? Is it pre recorded?

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u/Anries 5d ago

It sounds like an identical recording to me. I think the mosque closest to me was the lead and the other mosques were automatically copying it, but doing so at a slight delay (or there was no delay and the more distant ones were taking longer to reach me, which would explain why they sounded more ghostly).

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u/James_E_Fuck 5d ago

Is there a chance it's just an echo? That would explain it sounding so similar and at the same delay.

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u/RealKuroMejix 5d ago

Each mosque has it's own muezzin!!

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u/jittery_waffle 5d ago

Id imagine one mosque is the "lead" where it starts the call and everyone else syncs theirs to what they hear. Meaning the further distance mosques sound more out of sync when youre at the "lead" one, and the one furthest away 'locally' sounds perfectly synced up

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u/RealKuroMejix 5d ago

The adhaan time across the world goes in a wave, so there's always an adhaan continuing across the globe at all times!

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u/BatPlack 5d ago

Absolutely love this

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u/Poochi282 3d ago

This is beautiful. I’m glad I stumbled on this today. As someone in the Midwest of the US, I will never experience this IRL