Minaret

The mosque in Aswan, Egypt with its two minarets

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A muezzin calling to prayer, painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme

A minaret is a tower. Many mosques have minarets. Muezzins to call Muslims to prayers from minarets five times a day.

Minaret Media

• Minaret of Qayt Bey, Umayyad Mosque.jpg

  Minaret at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus

• The Muezzin's Call to Prayer (1878) - TIMEA.jpg

  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.

• Minaret of the Great Mosque of Kairouan, Tunisia.jpg

  Minaret of the Great Mosque of Kairouan in Tunisia, one of the oldest surviving minarets in the world

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  The Great Mosque of Samarra has a distinctive spiral minaret (848–852)

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  Cairo, moschea di al-maridani, minareto

• Po-i-Kalyan mosque with Kalyan minaret.jpg

  Po-i-Kalyan mosque with Kalyan minaret

• South-eastern Minaret - Taj Mahal - Agra 2014-05-14 3802.JPG

  One of the minarets of the Taj Mahal in Agra (1643)

• Koutoubia minaret DSCF8275.jpg

  Minaret of the Kutubiyya Mosque in Marrakesh (second half of 12th century)

• Selimiye Mosque (15051985908) (cropped).jpg

  The Selimiye Mosque in Edirne (1574), which features the four tallest Ottoman minarets

• Inside the minaret of a mosque in Mostar.jpg

  Inside the stairway of a minaret in Mostar