The adhan was performed by a mosque leader at Blackburn Cathedral to the disappointment of the landmark’s dean.
Very Rev Peter Howell-Jones told The Sunday Times: “I don’t think this should have happened here.”
“If people are going to call for my resignation, there’s nothing more I can say or do to people to pacify them because, actually, I agree with their arguments.”
Video footage posted online appears to show a man dressed in a white robe reciting the call to prayer in front of approximately 400 people.
Susie Leafe from Gafcon UK, which represents conservative Anglicans, told the newspaper: “Islam and Christianity disagree about the two most important questions in history: was Jesus God in human form? And did Jesus rise from the dead?
Remembrance Day 2018 Blackburn Cathedral. Azaan (call to prayer)by Moulana Abdurrahman Talha Umar. pic.twitter.com/g5Nh98p729
— Sabir Esa (@Sabir24161) November 11, 2018
“If allowing the imam to pray during the concert has suggested otherwise, I trust the dean and the bishop will put the matter right.”
It was part of an event organised by Blackburn Music Society in the nave of the cathedral on Saturday 10th to mark the armistice.
The adhan was a component of a performance of The Armed Man (A Mass for Peace) by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins.
In addition to parts of Christian liturgy, it…
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