Balkans | For the first time in the United States, it was allowed to call the call to prayer publicly 5 times a day in a large city.

In the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, it was allowed to read the adhan publicly using a loudspeaker five times a day throughout the year.

Minneapolis For the first time in the history of the country, the city council was held in a large city. The power of prayerHe read publicly five times Unanimously decided.

With the vote held in Ramadan, the House of Representatives changed the relevant restrictive articles in the city’s noise regulation, which stood in the way of the call to prayer publicly, especially in the morning and evening.

Muhammad Dokelfi, the imam of the city’s Al-Nour Mosque, who witnessed the vote, expressed his satisfaction with the result, saying, “Minneapolis is now a city for all religions.” Use the phrase.

Jilani Hussain, president of the Minnesota Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), said the five-time prayer time shows that “a nation founded on religious freedom has kept its promise to the world.”

Last year, the City Council gave permission to pray openly, but due to restrictions on the noise regime, morning and evening prayers were excluded.

Three of the 13 members of the Minneapolis City Council, which has a population of about half a million, are Muslims.