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• n  slender tower with balconies

• The delicate minaret, lace-like from a distance, is a calligraphic representation of the words of the call to prayer, punched out of steel plates.
• FAITHFUL and unfailing as the muezzin's call from the minaret, that heady cry goes out nightly from a radio station in Cairo to the Arab lands.
• There is no dome, no minaret, nothing but a small sign to indicate that this rundown Victorian house in the multiethnic south London neighborhood of Brixton is a mosque.

News & Articles

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• Raritan Township to hear plan for building mosque on Route 12
  Proposed site of mosque  RARITAN TWP. — A hearing on a plan to build a mosque with minaret on Route 12 is scheduled before the township Planning Board for Wednesday, July 24, at 7 p.m. in the Municipal Building. The...
  July 15, 2013 - Hunterdon County Democrat

Quotes

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• Gen Peter Pace in International Herald Tribune
  When the soldiers entered the compound, "they found that there was a building there that had a small minaret and a prayer room inside it," said General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "Some people are calling that a...
• John Warner in CNN
  It would be echoed and repeated from every minaret in Iraq that coalition forces have begun to take the first step backwards,said Warner, a former chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. "We cannot take that step -- not at this...
• King Abdullah II in Peninsula On-line
  Jordan will build a fifth minaret at the blessed Al Aqsa mosque,King Abdullah II said at a meeting of the state committee that has continued to oversee the maintenance of the shrine since Jordan's 1948-67 administration of east Jerusalem.