{"id":1496,"date":"2016-07-21T21:42:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T21:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2016-07-21T21:54:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T21:54:20","slug":"a-young-imam-starts-the-late-afternoon-prayers-at-urumchi-aq-mesjit-white-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/?p=1496","title":{"rendered":"A Young Imam Starts the Late Afternoon Prayers at Urumchi Aq Mesjit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">A Young Imam Starts the Late Afternoon Prayers at Urumchi Aq Mesjit (White Mosque)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The \u2018White\u2019 Mosque is well attended for the late afternoon service during the month of Ramadan, by a mostly Uyghur population. A young imam calls attendees to prayer from a booth at the back of the prayer hall as late-coming worshippers are still arriving.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px solid white; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 50px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/image\/Urumchi_Aq_Meschit1.jpg\" width=\"850\" height=\"638\" \/><\/p>\n<p><audio src=\"http:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/av\/Urumchi_Aq_Mechit1.mp3\" controls=\"controls\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">A row of more senior imams then conducts the rest of proceedings from the front, facing the assembled worshippers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><audio src=\"http:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/av\/Urumchi_Aq_Mechit2.mp3\" controls=\"controls\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Prayers take no more than about ten minutes in total.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px solid white; margin-top: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/image\/Urumchi_Aq_Meschit2.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Young Imam Starts the Late Afternoon Prayers at Urumchi Aq Mesjit (White Mosque) The \u2018White\u2019 Mosque is well attended for the late afternoon service during the month of Ramadan, by a mostly Uyghur population. A young imam calls attendees&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/?p=1496\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[106,28,138],"tags":[205,15,206,16,79],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1505,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions\/1505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}