LOL...the story of the bells in Suffolk reminds me of my childhood growing up in Bahrain. House surrounded by four mosques with the call to prayer blaring through loudspeakers five times a day with a slight lag between each mosque so it took quite some time for it all to end. I used to know the entire azaan and also noticed the slight difference between the shiite and the sunni version.
Got so used to it that when we finally left and settled elsewhere, missed it and would actually catch myself reciting it some times...shia version, since the mosque was right next door.
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