minaret

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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

The minaret was her husband's idea, and he sketched the initial design.

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2025

In one recording, a song about banishing darkness, associated with the current Jewish festival of Hanukkah, is heard sung in Hebrew through a loudspeaker in a minaret.

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2023

"To distinguish the Ottoman mosques, the minaret is usually pencil-shaped," said Mostafa Waziri, head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities.

From Reuters • Sep. 17, 2023

They only stopped when the call from the minaret of a nearby mosque announced the arrival of a new morning.

From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat