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
Less than a kilometre from the front line, Mukhtar al-Badri Mohieddin is walking with a stick near a mosque with a damaged minaret.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2024
We stood as far away from the edge as we could, gluing our bodies to the minaret.
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
But, in Londonderry, there are no mosques or minarets.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2024
Many buildings in Herat city were relatively unaffected, but the mediaeval minarets of its famous mosques sustained some damage, photographs on social media showed.
From Reuters ● Oct. 9, 2023
Two 700-year-old minarets on the list that are in the path of the roadwork are being dismantled and moved to another location.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
Four or five paragraphs were devoted to detailing the theater design—Oriental deities, minarets, hanging rugs, burning incense.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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