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- The Minaret of Jam is located in the Shahrak District, Ghor Province, in western Afghanistan, by the Hari River. The 65|m|ft high minaret, surrounded ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 18:44, 9 November 2022
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- The Minaret of Jam is located in the Shahrak District, Ghor Province, in western Afghanistan, by the Hari River. The 65|m|ft high minaret, surrounded ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 18:44, 9 November 2022
- Urdu: قطب منار), the tallest brick minaret in the world, constitutes ... apart from the usual function of a minaret as a high place to call ...14 KB (2,079 words) - 16:04, 7 December 2022
- Great Mosque of Samarra with its spiral minaret or malwiyah, built in 847 ... time the largest mosque in the world. Its minaret, the Malwiya Tower, is a ...9 KB (1,343 words) - 02:08, 23 December 2022
- structure of dry stone featuring a square minaret capped with five ostrich ... the thirteenth or fourteenth century. The minaret of this ancient structure ...17 KB (2,566 words) - 04:37, 4 March 2023
- large marble-paved courtyard and a massive minaret. There are 414 columns in ... Image:mosqueeKairouan_2.jpg|Minaret of the Mosque of Uqba ...17 KB (2,480 words) - 06:50, 28 February 2023
- [[Image:The spiral minaret in Samarra.jpg|thumb|250px|The Minaret ... time, the largest mosque in the world; its minaret is a vast spiraling cone ...13 KB (2,047 words) - 04:19, 17 June 2023
- Image:Shahi_Mosque_6.jpg|Cusped arch frames a minaret Image:Shahi_Mosque_7 ... Image:Shahi_Mosque_11.jpg|Samadhi of Ranjit Singh behind a minaret ...10 KB (1,530 words) - 05:38, 26 August 2023
- A common feature in mosques is the minaret, the tall, slender tower ... as ostentatious and unnecessary. The first minaret was constructed in 665 in ...42 KB (6,412 words) - 16:59, 10 November 2022
- [[Image:Large very white stalagmite.jpg|thumb|The Minaret]] ... of its most famous features, including the Minaret, the Grand Column and the ...14 KB (2,279 words) - 07:48, 3 April 2024
- the main wall and has eighteen buttresses. Each minaret contains a spiral staircase leading to the roof, and on top of each minaret is a cone shaped spire ...20 KB (2,929 words) - 16:28, 29 January 2024
- [[Image:Minaret in Samarkand.jpg|thumb|210px|A minaret in Samarkand]] | valign="top"| [[Image:SamarkandTillaKari.jpg|thumb|200px|Decorations ...15 KB (2,116 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- call the Islamic faithful to prayer. Each minaret is effectively divided into ... The minaret chattris share the same finishing touches: a lotus design ...30 KB (4,795 words) - 03:53, 27 February 2023
- (now replaced by the cathedral). The minaret, known as the Giralda was ... [[image:Safi_minaret.png|500px|thumb|The Alhomad minaret in Safi]] ...15 KB (2,322 words) - 08:17, 23 July 2023
- Koca Mi‘mār Sinān Āġā (Ottoman Turkish: خوجه معمار سنان آغا) (April 15, 1489 - April 09, 1588), better known simply as ...19 KB (2,894 words) - 22:27, 29 January 2023
- Qibla pointer, which is often in the shape of a minaret. ==Notes== ==References== * Crone, Patricia. Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam. Gorgias ...10 KB (1,571 words) - 21:48, 4 October 2022
- * The Kalyan minaret, which was built in 1127, was made in the form ... [[Image:bukhara01.jpg|thumb|165px|The Kalyan minaret.]] ...20 KB (2,826 words) - 18:38, 22 November 2023
- continue worshipping there. Saladin also added a minaret at each corner—two of which still survive—and the minbar. In the late fourteenth ...15 KB (2,391 words) - 16:20, 3 December 2023
- [[Image:Umayyad Mosque-Minaret of the Bride.jpg|thumb|250px|right|The Minaret of the Bride, Umayyad Mosque in old Damascus]] Damascus was conquered ...36 KB (5,471 words) - 18:07, 24 January 2024
- [[Image:Large very white stalagmite.jpg|thumb|175px|The Minaret at Jenolan Caves]] The Greater Blue Mountains Area consists of 1,032,649 hectares ...15 KB (2,192 words) - 02:27, 19 December 2022
- [[Image:Chinese-style minaret of the Great Mosque.jpg|thumb|left|150px|The Great Mosque in Xi'an ]] As one of the oldest areas of Chinese ...15 KB (2,046 words) - 10:15, 26 January 2023
