" The temple has five towers, the tallest is Tranquillity Spire, that are stylistically similar to the minarets surrounding the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.

Major European cities, such as Rome, London, and Munich, are home to mosques that feature traditional domes and minarets.

These ruins, for which the name Chehel minar (" the forty columns or minarets ") can be traced back to the 13th century, are now known as Takht-e Jamshid (" the throne of Jamshid ").

The most spectacular feature of the mosque are the minarets on either side of the facade, reminiscent of the propylon to a pharaonic temple.

These are the earliest surviving minarets in the city and they have been restored at various times during their history.

Inside, these strange structures are hollow, for they have been built around the original minarets, which are connected with brackets and can still be seen from the minaret above.

Slim, circular minarets of equal cross-section are common.

Furthermore, the use of grandiose forms such as large domes, towering minarets, and large courtyards are intended to convey power.

) In the " Survey of Western Palestine " in the latter part of the nineteenth century, Tarshiha was described as: " a very large village, containing about 1, 500 Moslems and 300 Christians ; there is a fine mosque with minarets newly built, also an old one ; the houses are well-built ; a new and handsome church has been built in the Christian quarter ".

However, the four existing minarets are not affected by the new legislation.

The banks of the river are dotted with historical and cultural sites, including the medieval monasteries of Murom, the mosques and minarets of Kasimov, the fortified kremlins of Kolomna and Serpukhov, the memorial houses of Vasily Polenov and Sergey Yesenin, the excavated ruins of Old Ryazan, and the Oka Shukhov Tower.

The minarets borrow their design from Turkish tradition and are thin and pencil like.

Each of the Mosque's four minarets are high ( the tallest minarets in South Asia ) and measure 10 x 10 m in circumference.

There are six peripheral minarets attached to the new extension, and four others frame the Ottoman structure.

The corners are decorated with minarets.

At the four corners of the courtyard are the four minarets, a number only allowable to mosques endowed by a sultan ( princes and princesses could construct two minarets ; others only one ).

The four minarets ( 83 m high ) at the corners of the prayer hall are the tallest in the Muslim world, accentuating the vertical posture of this mosque that already dominates the city.

It has been suggested that there are some Turkish influences in the exterior, particularly the two campaniles which resemble minarets.

Mosques are an ordinary scene throughout the country and adhan ( call to prayer ) from minarets are heard five times a day.

Well known examples are the Gol Gumbaz, Bijapur and the Taj Mahal, Agra, the latter renowned for its beauty in white marble, its minarets and its setting.

The English name is a transliteration and combination of the Urdu words Chār and Minar, translating to " Four Towers "; the eponymous towers are ornate minarets attached and supported by four grand arches.

This Iskele Mosque ( or Jetty mosque ) already shows several hallmarks of Sinan's mature style: a spacious, high-vaulted basement, slender minarets, single-domed baldacchino, flanked by three semi-domes ending in three exedrae and a broad double portico.

The round minarets, tall and graceful, rise from rectangular bases and have three platforms from which the muezzin can chant his call to prayer.

The golden domes, turquoise minarets, mosques, holy tombs, long lines of pligrims walking round the holy shrines were all sources of inspiration for the artist himself in which he later adapted and turned into artworks.

Consequently, mosque architects borrowed the shape of the bell tower for their minarets, which were used for essentially the same purpose — calling the faithful to prayer ..

The shape of the Faisal Mosque is an eight-sided concrete shell inspired by a desert Beduoin's tent and the cubic Kaaba in Mecca, flanked by four unusual minarets inspired by Turkish architecture.

The minarets rest on square bases, have octagonal shafts which take on a circular shape as they reach the top.

It was built by Sunni Muslims and it has some unusual architectural features, including a cone-shaped minaret ( one of just three minarets of this shape in East Africa ) and a square platform.

Adrianople contains the ruins of the ancient palace of the Ottoman Sultans and the Selimiye Mosque, one of the most important monuments in this ancient province ; built in 1575 and designed by Turkey's greatest master architect, Mimar Sinan, it has the highest minarets in Turkey, at 70. 9 meters and a cupola three or four feet higher than that of Hagia Sophia Mosque in Istanbul.

The earliest mosques were built without minarets, the call to prayer was performed elsewhere ; hadiths relay that the Muslim community of Medina gave the call to prayer from the roof of the house of Muhammad, which doubled as a place for prayer.

; Turkish ( 11th century ): 1, 2, 4 or 6 minarets related to the size of the mosque.

File: Ghawanima Minaret-Aqsa. JPG | The Ghawanima Minaret, 1900 ; one of the four minarets of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Old City Jerusalem

One finds there masonries and mosques of the 17th century ; Ketchaoua mosque ( built in 1794 by the Dey Baba Hassan ) flanked of two minarets, mosque el Djedid ( 1660, at the time of Turkish regency ) with its large finished ovoid cupola points some and its four coupolettes, mosque El Kébir ( oldest of the mosques, it was built by Almoravid ruler Yusuf ibn Tashfin and rebuilt later in 1794 ), mosque Ali Betchnin ( Raïs, 1623 ), Dar Aziza, palate of Jénina.

On 22 February 2006, a bomb attack in Iraq badly damaged the shrine of Askari, the burial place of al-Hadi and his son Hasan al -‘ Askarī ; another attack was executed on 13 June 2007, which led to the destruction of the two minarets of the shrine.

Gök Medresesi ( the Celestial Madrasa ; depicted on the obverse of the Turkish 500 lira banknote of 1927-1939 ) and Mavi Medrese, Sifaiye Medresesi, on the other hand, was completed earlier, on the eve of the second wave of Turkic immigration to Anatolia, in 1218 and the with its intricately carved facade and minarets are among the most noteworthy edifices carries on the traditional Seljuk Medrese plan.

* Turkish minaret ( 17th century ; one of only three existing minarets of the country )

Five bays form the building façade ; the largest central one, flanked by miniature minarets, is the entrance.

There are two minarets, both built entirely of stone, one at the northeast corner and one at the northwest portal right above the main entrance ; the former is the higher of the two.

10. The minarets are divided by three projecting galleries and are surmounted by open twelve-sided domed pavilions.

Built in the Hindu style of architecture, except for its minarets, this building has cornices and doorways with Hindu motifs.

Details of geometrical sandstone and marble pietra dura | pietre dura inlay patterns over the entrance iwan or high arc, and the chhatris and small minarets that surround the white marble central dome.