. St. Nicholas [serial]. haped like a doughnut (only Turkish men and women sitting on the what a wonderful view they look at ! Therethey sit for hours and hours, usually silent, occa-sionally chatting, sometimes grunting Lli, iili,nil. nil. in descending tones. The chief other thing a Turk does in times ofI)eace is to pray. From the gallery of a minaret,the muezzin calls him to prayer five times a you know what a minaret is? It is the towerof the Turkish church, or mosque. Mosques builtby royalty may have two minarets, others onlyone. They are slender, very tall, with a grace-
. St. Nicholas [serial]. haped like a doughnut (only Turkish men and women sitting on the what a wonderful view they look at ! Therethey sit for hours and hours, usually silent, occa-sionally chatting, sometimes grunting Lli, iili,nil. nil. in descending tones. The chief other thing a Turk does in times ofI)eace is to pray. From the gallery of a minaret,the muezzin calls him to prayer five times a you know what a minaret is? It is the towerof the Turkish church, or mosque. Mosques builtby royalty may have two minarets, others onlyone. They are slender, very tall, with a grace-fully pointed top that draws the eye right up tothe sky. There is a Turkish proverb that says,Never steal a minaret unless you have a placeto hide it in. Two thirds of the way up. there isa carved gallery, \ery light and beautiful, wherethe priest stands and chants down through the 48 CONSTANTINOPLE—THE CTrY OE THE GOLDEN HORN air the call to prayer, which in English prose isthis: There is no God but Allah; Mohammed is. A POklAl, OF Tllli PIGICON M(Jb(,i I !•;. His Prophet; let us go and pray; let us go saveour souls; God is great; there is no God butGod. A pious Turk either goes to the mosque,orprays wherever he may happen to be. I oncesaw a venturesome soldier praying on a ferry-boat. Liside the mosques the cooing of manypigeons adds to the rhythmic murmur of theprayers. There are pigeons inside and outside
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