A muezzin (/muːˈɛzɪn/; Turkish: müezzin from Arabic: مؤذن , muʾaḏḏan), or muzim, is the person appointed at a mosque to lead, and recite, the call to prayer for every event of prayer and worship in the mosque. The Muezzin's post is an important one, as he is the one responsible for each call to prayer. The community depends on him for accurate prayer schedules (salat, Turkish namaz). Historically a muezzin would have recited the adhan or call to prayer by the minarets in order to be heard by those around the mosque. Now, mosques often have loudspeakers mounted on the top of the minaret and the muezzin will use a microphone, or the muezzin recording is played, allowing the call to prayer to be heard at great distances without climbing the minaret. “The Ugaritic texts called the moon god EL- simply, “GOD” a forerunner of Islam’s ALLAH; and his moon-crescent symbol crowns every Muslim mosque. And as tradition demands, the mosques are flanked, to this day, by minare...