The person who calls Muslims to prayer from a mosque. This call to prayer (adhan) is announced five times a day: at dawn (fajr), midday (dhuhr), afternoon (‘asr), sunset (maghrib), and evening (‘isha).
Traditionally, the muezzin would ascend to the top of a mosque’s minaret to deliver the call to prayer. Modern mosques use loudspeakers to amplify the muezzin’s voice, ensuring that the call can be adequately and evenly projected out among the entire community. Muezzins are required to have clear and pleasant voices as they are tasked with the responsibility of ensuring the timely performance of one of the central practices of Islam.