"Revelation Road
With more biblical sites than anywhere outside of Israel, Turkey's spiritual tourism leads travelers and pilgrims to ruins
By Peter Manseau
Sunday, September 14, 2008; Page W16
From 3,000 loudspeakers affixed to the city's 3,000 minarets, the canned wailing of muezzins rings out the call to prayer five times a day. Istanbul has been a Muslim city for more than 500 years, and yet there still seems to be no coordination when it comes to scheduling this most basic of Islamic customs. With each chorus of "allahu akbar" beginning imprecisely at sunrise, it's pretty much every mosque for itself. "
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