Minarets in a sentence

Efforts to lower the noise volume from external loudspeakers installed on the minarets have always been on card even among Muslims in other parts of the world, including India.

They also noted that interventions aimed at comprehending the situation will be undertaken in some minarets, adding that partial dismantling may be considered for a minaret.

Hamburg's Blue Mosque is one of Germany's oldest and most well-known mosques and the building with the two minarets - protected as a historic monument - is a frequent sightseeing spot for tourists.

They adopted an unpretentious and frugal way of living, often reflected in their architecture with white-washed, nondescript mosques, small minarets, and no outward-looking windows.

Minarets were added, and later the great Ottoman architect Sinan built massive buttresses to prevent the walls from buckling under the weight of the dome, which was damaged in earthquakes.

Trump could take a look at some of the most exquisite medieval Islamic architecture in the world, such as the intricate carvings of Sidi Sayed’s mosque, or the ‘shaking minarets’ of Sidi Bashir.

It is famous for its Perso–Islamic architecture, grand boulevards, covered bridges, palaces, tiled mosques, and minarets.

The four minarets that border it, are the world’s tallest group of such towers that each stand at 142.3 metres (460 feet) above ground level.

During the attack, the mob demolished the mosque’s minarets, dome, doors and other parts of the structure.

Hard Rock stripped the property to its foundation, eliminating the Indian-themed domes and minarets of the Taj Mahal era, and redid the property inside and out.

Numerous pavilions were built in exotic styles, like the Malaya Pavilion with its dome and minarets, and the pagoda-topped pavilion of Burma.

At mosques that do not have minarets, the adhan is called instead from inside the mosque or somewhere else on the ground.

In 1260, after Mamluk Sultan Baibars defeated the Mongol army, the minarets were built onto the sanctuary.

It was also renowned for the minarets of its mosques (four of which were still in use in the early part of the 20th century) and the Muslim burial grounds.

Kansu is perhaps the most dominantly Mohammedan province in China, and here many different sects are found, and mosques with minarets used by the orthodox muezzin calling to prayer, and in one place veiled women are met with.

Located in the Kocatepe quarter, it was constructed between 1967 and 1987 in classical Ottoman style with four minarets.

Mosques in western China were more likely to incorporate elements, like domes and minarets, traditionally seen in mosques elsewhere.

Outside the main building, the minarets were repaired and altered so that they were of equal height.

The fleet did not make a stop, but passing before Mogadishu, the anonymous diarist of the expedition noted that it was a large city with houses of four or five storeys high and big palaces in its center and many mosques with cylindrical minarets.

With its tall concrete minarets built around a square central structure, the building is stylistically closer to Saudi religious structures than West African.