How a Small Mosque in Pulicat Told Its Town the Time Using Only the Sun
A town needs to agree on the time before it can pray together. In Pulicat, the answer was a shadow. At Chinna Pallivasal, one of the town’s main mosques, a sundial installed in 1914 showed the hour by which the community assembled for prayer. This episode explains how a sundial works, why local solar time differs from the clock on your phone, how a sea trading town came to have three mosques, and where the Pulicat sundial sits among the sundials of old Madras. The sundial is one stop on the Port to Palm day trip from Chennai. Book at 5sensestours.com.
Key moments:
00:00 A town that ran on the sun
04:00 Why a mosque needs the sun
09:00 How a sundial works
13:30 Three mosques and a sea behind them
18:00 Sundials of old Madras
22:00 Standing at the sundial
00:00 A town that ran on the sun
04:00 Why a mosque needs the sun
09:00 How a sundial works
13:30 Three mosques and a sea behind them
18:00 Sundials of old Madras
22:00 Standing at the sundial
Resources: Blog: 5sensestours.com/pulicat-sundial-chinna-pallivasal-mosque-solar-time/ and Tour: 5sensestours.com/tour/port-to-palm/
