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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.
[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]
A common feature in mosques is the minaret, the tall, slender tower that usually is situated at one of the corners of the mosque structure. The top of the minaret is always the highest point in mosques that have one, and often the highest point in the immediate area.
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 minaret's spiral shape inspired Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Philip Johnson's design for the 1976 Chapel of Thanksgiving at Thanks-Giving Square in Dallas, Texas, in the United States. [26] [27] [28] The minarets of a prominent Emirati mosque, that of Sheikh Khalifa in Al Ain, have been also been inspired by this minaret. [29]
In the early hours Friday morning, the 11-meter-high (33-foot-high) minaret was razed to the ground, with the Iraqis are furious over their government's demolition of a minaret that stood for ...
The Kutubiyya Mosque, and more specifically its minaret, was the forerunner of two other structures built on the same pattern, the Hassan Tower in Rabat (a monumental mosque begun by Ya'qub al-Mansur but never finished) and the Great Mosque of Seville, Spain, whose minaret is preserved as the Giralda. It thus became one of the models for ...
The tallest minaret in Bosnia and Herzegovina. [18] Minar-e-Pakistan: Lahore: Pakistan 70 230 1968 [19] Istiqlal Mosque Minaret Jakarta: Indonesia 66.6 218 1974 The symbolize the divine oneness of God. [20] Podgredina Blue Mosque Minarets Podgredina: Bosnia and Herzegovina 66 217 2018 The first mosque with 5 şerefe's (balconies) on a minaret ...