GRANADA – A video showing the first adhan inside Granada’s Alhambra Palace in Spain has gone viral on the internet, being the first call to prayer to echo inside the Islamic palace walls in 500 years.

The adhan was recited by Mouaz Al-Nass, a Syrian singer and drummer, earlier this month, SBS reported on Monday, September 18.

A video of the Al-Nass calling the Adhan at the palace has been viewed at least a million times since being posted on his Facebook account on September 7.

Tourists and locals are taken aback at Al-Nass’ chilling rhythmic call and begin to take photos and film the rare sight.

He reportedly said he felt the walls had missed ‘hearing the call to Allah’.

Alhambra Palace was built by Muslim rulers of Granada during the end of Muslim rule of Spain by Yusuf I during the 1330s.

In 1492, Granada came under Christian rule and the palace was known at the time to have been a final place of refuge for artists and intellectuals as the Spanish Reconquest took place by Christians who eventually won victories over Al Andalusia.

The palace, constructed as a fortress, would be the last stronghold of Al Andalusia before falling to the Catholic army of Spanish King and Queen Ferdinand and Isabella.

Before that date, Muslim ruled Spain for 800 years.