minaret

Example Sentences

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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

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

The minaret of a mosque was tilting to one side.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 4, 2023

A mosque minaret had fallen in Jemaa al-Fna Square, the heart of the old city.

From Reuters • Sep. 9, 2023

We were so busy, I barely noticed the call to evening prayers from the minaret in the distance or the sun setting outside our window.

From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed