minaret
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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
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
The minaret of a mosque was tilting to one side.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 4, 2023
The earthquake just over a week ago maimed a six-century-old mosque in one Amizmiz's oldest neighbourhoods, taking a bite out of the pinky brown minaret.
From BBC • Sep. 17, 2023
We stood as far away from the edge as we could, gluing our bodies to the minaret.
From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat
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