Denmark opens female-led mosque with rare sound of a woman singing the Friday call to prayer

Friday prayers have been led by women for the first time in Scandinavia this week, as a female-led mosque was opened in Copenhagen,Denmark

More than 60 women crammed into the Mariam mosque in a city centre street in the Danish city on Friday Aug 26,2016 to their first service together

Sherin Khankan and Saliha Marie Fetteh, the mosque's two female imams, shared the ceremony, as Khankan sang the adnan and made an opening speech.

Fetteh delivered the khutbah, or sermon, on the theme of 'women and Islam in a modern world'.

This was history, the first female-led mosque in Scandinavia, with only a handful outside China.