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Minaret at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus. A minaret (/ ˌ m ɪ n ə ˈ r ɛ t, ˈ m ɪ n ə ˌ r ɛ t /; [1] Arabic: منارة, romanized: manāra, or Arabic: مِئْذَنة, romanized: miʾḏana; Turkish: minare; Persian: گلدسته, romanized: goldaste) is a type of tower typically built into or adjacent to mosques.
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This article lists some but by no means all of the oldest known minaret towers in the world. The oldest minaret still surviving is that of the Great Mosque of Kairouan in Tunisia . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was constructed in 836 AD [ 3 ] and is considered as the prototype for all the square shaped minarets built in the Western Muslim World.
The Minar was a staged, tower-like structure built in the center of the Sasanian circular city of Gōr (modern Firuzabad, Iran). Several theories have been proposed for its purpose. Several theories have been proposed for its purpose.
[13] [11] The minaret is also known as Mahkamah Minaret since the minaret is located near the Madrasa al-Tankiziyya which served as a law court during the times of Ottomans. [14] This minaret, possibly replacing an earlier Umayyad minaret, is built in the traditional Syrian square tower type and is made entirely out of stone. [15]
Opened in April 2019, it houses the world's tallest minaret and is the third-largest mosque in the world after the Great Mosque of Mecca and Al-Masjid an-Nabawi of Medina in Saudi Arabia. [2] [3] [4] The mosque features a prayer hall with an area of 22,000 m 2 (240,000 sq ft), [5] capable of accommodating 120,000 worshippers. The central nave ...
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Minaret is a tower-like component of a mosque. Minaret or minar may also refer to: Minaret of Jam, Afghanistan; Minaret College, an Islamic, independent school in Australia; Minaret Summit, a mountain pass in Australia; Minar (Firuzabad), a tower-like structure at the center of Firuzabad, Iran; Minaq or Minar, a village in Iran; Minaret of ...