[bondjamesbond]

I've lived next door to a minaret and next door to a tight-radius elevated turn on the NY Subway, where it sounds like they are trying to pull a subway car through a sewer pipe, 54 times a day. The screeching and banging were enough to rattle your fillings.

But all in all, I would prefer the mechanical noise to the amplified voice. The human mind can "program out" almost any mechanical noise. The Islamic call to prayer is specifically designed to be impossible to ignore.

[bk1000]

"The screeching and banging were enough to rattle your fillings."

You'd think the train would drown all that out.