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Lines of Communication
Prayer is both a highly individualized activity and a profoundly communal act
Neil MacGregor focuses on prayer, reflecting on how this most highly individualized of activities is also a profoundly communal act, with objects including a 16th Century ivory and gold qibla, used to find the direction of Mecca - a function now offered by smartphone apps.
Producer Paul Kobrak
Produced in partnership with the British Museum
Photograph (c) The Trustees of the British Museum.
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19:32GMT
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