minaret
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He saw great beauty in the natural world, often sharing photos with friends of hawks soaring over the mosque’s minaret.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
With its palm trees standing alongside the minaret and its nondescript suburban homes lining the street, this suburb presents the image of a peaceful, multicultural America.
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
To reach Ghorjomi mosque, one of the biggest, we drove up hairpin mountain lanes, edged with blue hydrangeas, until we spotted the minaret.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025
She watched one tear the minaret off the top of the building.
From BBC • May 17, 2025
I imagined the donkey my father mentioned standing there under the minaret the way Souma had stood in the shelter after the war.
From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat
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