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
Monday's itinerary includes a visit to the Great Mosque of Algiers -- with the world's highest minaret -- and the Basilica of Our Lady of Africa, overlooking the Bay of Algiers.
From Barron's ● Apr. 13, 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
Other major landmarks of Mosul have also been restored - that wriggling minaret of al-Hadba, the Dominican al-Saa'a Convent and the complex of Al-Nouri mosque.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2025
Birds flew onto dancing treetops below me, and many distant towns flickered on the bright horizon, each with a minaret that pointed to the sky like a pencil pointing to a page.
From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat
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"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
Another video verified by HRW showed an ablution hall in Liujiaguo mosque in southern Ningxia being demolished shortly after the removal of its two minarets and a dome.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2023
The mediaeval minarets of Herat sustained some damage, photographs on social media showed, with cracks visible and tiles fallen off.
From Reuters ● Oct. 8, 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
Jalil told her the story of Queen Gauhar Shad, who had raised the famous minarets as her loving ode to Herat back in the fifteenth century.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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