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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.
99 325 2009 [8] Great Mosque of Central Java Minaret Semarang: Indonesia 99 325 2006 [9] 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
Al-Nour Mosque [8] Egypt: Cairo: 111.9 metres: 12 Grand Mosalla mosque of Isfahan [9] Iran: Isfahan: 110 metres: 2010: 13 Çamlıca Republic Mosque [10] Turkey: Istanbul: 107.1 metres: 2016: 14 The Grand Mosque [11] United Arab Emirates: Dubai: 107 metres: 2007: 15 Sabancı Central Mosque [12] Turkey: Adana: 99 metres: 1998: 16 Jameh Mosque of ...
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 ...
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 mosque has seven minarets, and the main tower reaches 99 meters, which is a reference to the Asmaul Husna, or the 99 names of Allah. The main tower consists of building with 15 floors and each floor has height of an average of 6 meters. Meanwhile, stairs from the ground floor to the main floor of the mosque amount to 33 steps.
[2] [27] The tower tapers, and has a 14.3 metres (47 feet) base diameter, reducing to 2.7 metres (9 feet) at the top of the peak. [28] It contains a spiral staircase of 379 steps. [29] [1] At the foot of the tower is the Quwat Ul Islam Mosque. The Minar tilts just over 65 cm from the vertical, which is considered to be within safe limits. [30]
It was the second largest mosque in the world after Mecca Great mosque from the around 9th century, until Sultan Ahmed Mosque, Istanbul was built in 1588. It had a surface area of 23,400 square metres (2.34 ha) and accommodated an estimated 32,000 to 40,000 worshipers. Current mosque structure date from 784 to 987. [1] [1] [9] Mosque of Cristo ...