Sentence examples for start of prayer from inspiring English sources

Soon, crackling Arabic from booming speakers signaled the start of prayer, but I couldn't move.

At the start of prayer (Dua of Istiftah).

As the first rays of morning sunlight stream down across the valley, they blow a salute through conch shells, warding off evil and announcing the start of prayers.

"Father, God, we thank you for this gathering of souls," he said at the start of the prayer, before continuing.

Listening is the beginning of prayer".

WELL before the start of Friday prayers, rolls of mats tied with string are waiting propped against the kerb.

An upper floor of the Oil Ministry caught fire, but there were no reported injuries in a building that, unlike the hotels filled with foreign journalists and other outsiders, was virtually deserted at the start of a Muslim prayer day.

We entered the square at the start of the noon prayer.

Three of his teammates, believers in the efficacy of prayer, start right in.

For instance: churches are now marking the start of the week of prayer for Christian unity; which would be a grand idea but for the fact that it exposes the differences between them all the more clearly.

For the first time in more than 20 years, worshippers in Iran failed to chant "Death to America!" at the start of their Friday prayers.