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A call to prayer is a summons for participants of a faith to attend a group worship or to begin a required set of prayers. The call is one of the earliest forms of telecommunication, communicating to people across great distances. All religions have a form of prayer, and many major religions have a form of the call to prayer.
In the early Christian Church, different methods were used to call the Christian prayer: playing , hitting wooden planks, shouting, or using a courier. Greek monasteries would ring a semantron (flat metal plate) to announce services.
Paulinus of Nola, an early church father, is traditionally credited with the introduction of the use of bell in devotions. The steeple bells were known as campanas. However, the invention credited to Paulinus was probably the work of Nicetas of Remesiana, and most likely used in the churches used by the Bessi in the highlands of Western Thrace. In AD 604, Pope Sabinian introduced the ringing of bells at the canonical hours and the celebration of the Eucharist. Their use spread rapidly as the bells were not only useful signaling the call to worship, but could be used in times of danger.
The Roman tintinnabuli were made from Forging and were not large in size. By the end of the 7th century, larger bells originating from Campania and Nola were cast. The bells consequently took the eponymous names of campana and nola from cities. By the early Middle Ages, church bells became common throughout the rest of Europe, and were most likely spread by the Irish missionaries and their influence.
The Puja Tri Sandhya is the call to prayer.
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