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minaret

[min-uh-ret, min-uh-ret] / ˌmɪn əˈrɛt, ˈmɪn əˌrɛt /




NOUN
turret
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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 the video, verified by the BBC, much of the Great Omari Mosque appears to be reduced to rubble, with only its minaret still intact.

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2023

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

"I could talk to you for three hours about the family lineages, the mosques' minarets and why the mud-brick walls never collapse in the rain," he told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

Famed for its palaces, tiled mosques and minarets, Isfahan - where blasts were heard overnight - is also a major centre for military industry.

From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2024

Yildiz, a master of Mahya, the unique Turkish tradition of stringing religious messages and designs between minarets, is facing the twilight of a practice deeply ingrained in Turkish culture that is also taken for granted.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2024

Neighbours were still searching for survivors buried on the slopes, where houses of mud brick, stone and rough wood were cracked open and mosque minarets toppled by the quake that struck late on Friday.

From Reuters ● Sep. 9, 2023

The minarets of the Jameh Mosque were even taller than the baad gir of Dowlatabad Garden.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram


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