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Click below to listen to the evening call to prayer at the Omayyad Mosque in the ancient walled medina of Damascus, Syria. First constructed in the 4th century as a Christian church, it was converted to a mosque after the Arab conquest of 635 A.D. The location is an ancient pagan site where Syrians worshiped more than 3,000 years ago. It is venerated by Syrians and other Muslims throughout the Arab world.

Melissa Schmitt’s audio file