minaret in English

noun
1
a tall slender tower, typically part of a mosque, with a balcony from which a muezzin calls Muslims to prayer.
On July 10, the muezzin called for the Muslim prayers from the minarets of Grenada's grand mosque once again after nearly 500 years of Muslim rule on the Iberian Peninsula.

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1. Wen is the minaret of the ancient town of Chaoyang mark.

2. The 150-foot-high Kalyan Minaret towers over the mosque and Mir-i-Arab.

3. It stands on a high marble plinth with a minaret at each corner.

4. Poplar leaves have an elegant outline resembling that of an arab minaret.

5. Around the door was a wooden cut-out shaped like a minaret.

6. 12 Poplar leaves have an elegant outline resembling that of an arab minaret.

7. The minaret ban represented a turning point in the debate about Islam in Switzerland.

8. The minaret is 65 meters ( 213 feet ) high, the second highest in the world.

9. Typically , houses with patios crowd along narrow streets around a mosque with a square minaret.

10. They left alone the old town with its souks, square, palaces and its impressive Koutoubia minaret.

11. The fourteenth-century Blue Mosque now has cracks in the walls and a dangerously leaning minaret.

12. Over their tiled roofs, gables and chimneys rose the minaret-like towers of a Romanesque church.

13. But the shimmering white minaret, and the impressive dome, designed to shelter 500 worshippers, are deceptive.

14. A mu'addhin calls the Adhan from the minaret of a mosque to announce every prayer and worship event

15. The mosque of umar,located next to the church of the holy sepulcher,features a syrian-type minaret.

16. Adhan is called out by the muezzin in the mosque, sometimes from a minaret, five times a day summoning Muslims for mandatory (fard) prayers (salah)

17. The Adhan or Call to Prayer is called out by a muezzin from the mosque five times a day, traditionally from the minaret, summoning Muslims for mandatory (fard) worship (salat)

18. The major structures were the Plain Minaret of the Huaisheng Mosque, the Flower Pagoda of the Temple of the Six Banyan Trees, and the guard tower known as the 5-Storey Pagoda.

19. During 2018, the main achievements were the completion of the conservation works for the Minaret of Camii-Kebir and the Hamam in Paphos, Tuzla mosque in Larnaca and Agia Triada archaeological site, and Agios Philon conservation of the archaeological site in Karpasia/Karpaz.

20. John Cuthbert Lawson, writing in 1910, described the 'Swarms of Byzantine saints and angels [which] must have troubled the air for centuries above the turbaned heads in Aya Sofia and Famagusta' while, a keen eye should detect the flights of Afrits and djinns around the great Giralda minaret which is now the belfry of Seville cathedral'.