Mumbai mosques to use Azan app after ban on loudspeakers

An application named ‘Online Azan’, launched by a Tamil Nadu-based company, is now being used by Mumbai’s mosques as well as devotees following the ban on loudspeakers, as per reports.

Since loudspeakers have been reportedly banned for all the religious places in Mumbai, many mosques in the city have registered on the Online Azan app, allowing them to announce the Namaz timings for the day on personal devices. Local devotees can hear the timings through the app, and they also receive notifications accordingly.

Additionally, the app enables devotees to hear the Azan at home through their mobile phones.

Initially, the app was launched to help people who travel frequently and are unable to attend the mosque, but it is now also being used to support noise control.

The app lists all five daily prayer times – Fajr, Zohar, Asr, Maghrib, and Isha, and announces them accordingly.

Mumbai Police Commissioner Deven Bharti on Saturday had reportedly said that the city is now entirely free of directional loudspeakers after its personnel successfully completed a comprehensive crackdown on public address systems at all religious structures as per reports.

All loudspeakers from religious structures have been removed. Mumbai is now loudspeaker-free from all religious structures, Bharti had informed a news agency.