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Definition of minaret
: a tall slender tower of a mosque having one or more balconies from which the summons to prayer is cried by the muezzin
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The mosque’s distinctive minaret, which once leaned like the Tower of Pisa, was reduced to a broken stump.
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Much of the mosque and brickwork minaret was reduced to rubble, said a Reuters TV reporter who went to the site with the elite units that captured it.
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There is the wreckage of the 12th century al-Nuri mosque and its huge, leaning minaret.
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Much of Mosul lies in ruins, including the 800-year-old mosque with its famous leaning minaret, known as al-Habda, or the hunchback.
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The site, with its iconic leaning minaret even appears on the 10,000 Iraqi Dinar note (a denomination equal to about eight and a half U.S. dollars).
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Concerns over the stability of al-Hadba' increased after the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, when shelling of the city weakened the foundation of the minaret.
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The historic mosque and its leaning minaret has been reduced to ruins and rubble.
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IS fighters initially attempted to destroy the minaret in July 2014.
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Origin and Etymology of minaret
French, from Turkish minare, from Arabic manāra lighthouse
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: a tall, thin tower of a mosque with a balcony from which the people are called to prayer
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: a tall slender tower of a mosque with a balcony from which the people are called to prayer
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