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Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque Main Minaret Muscat: Oman: 91.5 300 2001 [10] Faisal Mosque Minarets Islamabad: Pakistan 90 300 1986 [11] Great Mosque of Mecca Minarets Makkah (Mecca) Saudi Arabia 89 292 [12] Selimiye Mosque Minarets Edirne: Turkey 70.89 239.5 1574 Tallest Ottoman minarets. [13] Delimeđe Mosque Minarets Delimeđe: Serbia 77.2 253 2009
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.
The main part of the tower has a cuboid shape with a square base. It is partitioned into several 'stories', visually divided on the outside by stone moldings and muqarnas (stalactite) cornices. The first two stories are wider and form the base of the tower, followed by an additional four stories, including the muezzin's gallery or balcony.
The tower reflects a blend of Mughal/Islamic and modern architecture. The tower was designed and supervised by, Nasreddin Murat-Khan , a Russian-born Pakistani architect and civil engineer . [ 4 ] The minaret provides a panoramic view to visitors who can access the top by climbing up the stairs or by means of an elevator .
Faisal Mosque [16] Pakistan: Islamabad: 90 metres: 1987: 20 Kocatepe Mosque [17] Turkey: Ankara: 88 metres: 1987: 21 Abdülhamid Han Mosque Turkey: Kahramanmaras: 88 metres: 22 Maltepe Merkez Mosque Turkey: Istanbul: 87 metres: 23 Mosque of Muhammad Ali [18] Egypt: Cairo: 84.1 metres: 1848: 24 Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan [19] Egypt: Cairo ...
The minaret is a tower that traditionally accompanies a mosque building. Its formal function is to provide a vantage point from which the call to prayer, or adhān, is made. The call to prayer is issued five times each day: dawn, noon, mid-afternoon, sunset, and night.
The mind behind the mosque, Al-Mutawakkil, was assassinated in 861, and structures like this mosque were then difficult to credit to a subsequent caliph. There was unrest and a ten year period of trouble, including a civil war in 865–866. This Great Mosque was one of the last buildings with a known name attributed to it in this period. [8]
Formerly built for a Seljuk-era mosque, now attached to a Safavid-era mosque. [8] [8] Ghazni Minarets: Ghazni: Afghanistan: South Asia: 20 65 12th century Endangered 2 minaret towers. Upper portion of tower lost to earthquake in 1902 [9] [9] Jarkurgan minaret: Jarkurgan: Uzbekistan: Central Asia: 21.6 71 1108 [10] [11] Khosrogerd Minaret ...