Minaret
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A minaret is a type of tower typically built into or adjacent to mosques. Minarets are generally used to project the Muslim call to prayer from a muezzin, but they also served as landmarks and symbols
The Main Minaret of the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina, next to the Green Dome, is one of the mosque’s ten minarets.
An orientalist depiction of the muezzin's call to prayer from the balcony of a minaret, 1878. Usually only one muezzin chants the azan from the balcony, back straight and not leaning on the railing.
Inside the stairway of a minaret in Mostar
Inside the Giralda minaret in Seville, which has ascending ramps instead of stairs
Al-Hakim Mosque
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The al-Hakim Mosque, also known as al-Anwar, is a mosque in Cairo, Egypt. It is named after al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh, the 6th Fatimid caliph and 16th Ismāʿīlī Imam. Construction of the mosque was origina
Interior courtyard of the mosque
The mosque in the 1890s, before its restoration in 1980
The mosque sahn in 2018
Main entrance of the mosque