Konya as a Turkish city with a history stretching back to the early Seljuk era has a wide variety of striking minaret styles, ...

Seven years after it was destroyed by ISIS, the iconic Al-Hadba minaret in Mosul, Iraq, has finally been restored. Last week, the Azaan, or Islamic call to prayer, was broadcast from the rebuilt ...

Dwarf baldcypress, dwarf swamp cypress Latin name: Taxodium distichum ‘Peve Minaret’ Plant size: 6-10′ high by 3′ wide in 10 ...

This photo taken on March 17, 2025 shows the reconstruction site of the Grand al-Nuri Mosque in the old city of Mosul, Iraq.

For more than 40 years, the Turkish government has fought the PKK in eastern Turkey, northern Iraq and Syria. Recent efforts ...

A Brierley Hill mosque wants to build a dome and minaret, which would 'double the height of the building'. The Trinity Road ...

A Brierley Hill mosque wants to build a dome and minaret, which would 'double the height of the building'. The Trinity Road ...

He saw the gloriously skewed al-Hadba minaret, known as the "hunchback", which had been emblematic of Mosul for hundreds of years, in ruins. "It was like a ghost town," he says. "Dead bodies all ...

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The 9th-century Great Mosque and its spiral minaret are among the numerous remarkable architectural monuments of the site, 80% of which remain to be excavated. Description is available under license ...

Samarra Archaeological City, located about 130 km north of Iraqi capital Baghdad, contains the remains of an iconic Islamic city that during most of the 9th century served as the capital of the ...

This photo taken on March 17, 2025 shows the reconstruction site of the Grand al-Nuri Mosque and its al-Hadbaa minaret in the ...