Calls to Prayer

Several times a day, a loudspeaker blares out a call to prayer and it seems to me the closer it gets to Friday noon, equivalent to our Sundays, the louder the calls to prayer become. It is a singing wail of the meuzzin ( always a man). Istanbul has a lot of beautiful old buildings that need repair and restoration and also a lot of wooden ones too. On our street is a tomb inserted between the apt. bldgs. Oh, the Spice Bazaar is called the Egyptian Bazaar because it was taxes from Egypt that built it. Egypt belonged to the Ottoman empire for a while.