minaret
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The center — its minaret visible for miles — draws congregants from across the globe.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 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
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
Then the taxi headed into the rural West Bank of orchards and tiny villages, each with its own minaret and perched houses.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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