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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

He saw the gloriously skewed al-Hadba minaret, known as the "hunchback", which had been emblematic of Mosul for hundreds of years, in ruins.

From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2025

Bending through a low door, I walked out to find myself standing on a narrow balcony that surrounded the minaret like a bracelet.

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

The wheat and potato fields there run right up to the Gaza border fence, within sight of the apartment buildings, water towers and minarets of the Palestinian village of Abasan just beyond it.

From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2024

In the Muslim-majority village of Liaoqiao in the autonomous region of Ningxia, three of six mosques have been stripped of their domes and minarets, according to HRW.

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2023

In Muslim-majority countries, they’re in the minarets defining skylines, the headscarves donned by many women, the omnipresent call to prayer that beckons the faithful five times a day, and the references peppering casual greetings.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2023

Line after line of baad girs marched into the distance, and the azure minarets of the Jameh Mosque sparkled when they caught the light.

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