Duke community gathers for first Muslim call to prayer despite chapel controversy

Several hundred people gathered at the steps of Duke University's chapel on Friday for its first Muslim call to prayer, despite the administration's swift reversal of its decision to allow the prayer to be amplified from its bell tower.

The schools' Muslim Students Association set up a P.A. system on the chapel's steps, over which a woman read the call to prayer, called the adhan, in English, followed by an Arabic recitation by Duke's Muslim chaplain, Imam Adeel Zeb

“If you want to pray ... that would be OK," he added in English afterward. "We would greatly appreciate that.”

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