A video has circulated on Facebook with the false claim it shows a mosque in London defying a "ban" on broadcasting the Islamic call to prayer. The video in fact shows the call broadcast from a mosque in Sweden in 2013. There is no blanket ban on mosques in Britain broadcasting the call to prayer, and local authorities can approve or reject applications to do so.
The video was shared here on Facebook on December 30, 2022.
The one-minute 17-second clip shows people gathering outside a mosque while the Islamic call to prayer -- known as adhan in Arabic -- can be heard.
The post's Bengali-language caption claims the call to prayer is "miraculously heard" despite a "ban" in London.
A person can also be heard in the video saying in Hindi that this mosque in England had been sealed and Muslims were not allowed to worship there, but the call to prayer could still be heard during prayer times.
Screenshot of the misleading Facebook post, captured on January 10, 2023
The video was also shared more than 7,000 times elsewhere on Facebook here and here.
The video, however, does not show the call to prayer being broadcast from a mosque in the United Kingdom; it was in fact taken outside a mosque in Sweden's capital Stockholm in 2013.
Fittja mosque in Stockholm
A reverse image search on Google led to a video that was posted on video-sharing website Dailymotion here in June 2013.
The video is also one-minute 17-seconds long, and shows people gathered outside a mosque as the Islamic call...
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