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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.
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 tallest minaret in Bosnia and Herzegovina. [17] Minar-e-Pakistan: Lahore: Pakistan 70 230 1968 [18] Istiqlal Mosque Minaret Jakarta: Indonesia 66.6 218 1974 The symbolize the divine oneness of God. [19] Podgredina Blue Mosque Minarets Podgredina: Bosnia and Herzegovina 66 217 2018 The first mosque with 5 şerefe's (balconies) on a minaret ...
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 ...
[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]
Migdal Eder (Hebrew: מגדל־עדר Miḡdal ‘Êḏer [miɣ.dal ʕɛð.er], "Tower of Eder") is a tower mentioned in the biblical book of Genesis 35:21, in the context of the death of Jacob's wife, Rachel. The biblical record locates it near the present-day city of Bethlehem.
Among them, the minaret of the Great Mosque of Kairouan in Tunisia, dating from 836, is one of the oldest surviving minarets in the world and the oldest in North Africa. [24] [133] [135] It has the shape of a massive tower with a square base, three levels of decreasing widths, and a total height of 31.5 meters. [136] [137]
The minaret remained unrestored, although attempts were made in 1981 by an Italian firm to stabilise it. The bombing of Mosul during the Iran–Iraq War in the 1980s broke underground pipes and caused leaks under the minaret that further undermined it. The lean later worsened by another 40 centimetres (16 in).