It is the same as the towers of traditional churches that indicates Christian architecture. For mosques, it is a matter of Islamic architecture and is symbolic indication of mosques.
It not just a symbolic item. Everything created for purpose. As churches minaret used to locate the bell, minaret in mosques also use for the signal purpose.
In more recent times, the main function of the minaret was to provide a vantage point from which the muezzin can call out the adhan, calling the faithful to prayer.
In most modern Mosques, the adhan is called not in the minaret, but in the musallah, or prayer hall, via a microphone and speaker system. However, the minaret still a good place to locate the speaker.
It is a tower where a crier calls Muslims to pray five times a day.
It is an essential part of the mosque structure that allows the announcement for prayer from a high location above ground to be heard by a wide surrounding. However, with the current availability of electricity and loud speakers, the practical use of minarets is confined to be just as mosque symbol, exactly as that of the church.
The minaret is a tall slender tower attached to a mosque, having one or more projecting balconies from which a muezzin summons the people to prayer. It was an essential part of the mosque structure that allows the announcement for prayer from a high location above ground to be heard by a wide surrounding. However, with the current availability of electricity and loud speakers, the practical use of minarets is confined to be just as mosque symbol, exactly as that of the church.
It is traditional feature of the Mosque architect design as the towers in Church designs. It is not a mosque design requirement per Islam religion.
It is not something compulsory. It is just a sign showing a mosque.
Mosque with the Spiral Minaret was created in 1550.
Minaret. The Steeple can be a neutral term in architecture and can therefore apply to the minaret of a mosque, but steeple usually refers to the tower placed on the side of a church.
A minaret on a mosque performs roughly the same function as belltower on a church; it calls the faithful to prayer at the appropriate intervals.
The spiral minaret on the Mosque of Samarra has approximately 650 steps. -stanggirl258
no for calling to prayer when no laud speaker was invented
The building is called Mosque (or Masjid) and the tower is called minaret (or Me'zana)
a minaret
Minaret
The tower is called a minaret, and the building is called a mosque or a masjid. The minaret is used by the muezzin, who climbs to the top and announces the beginning of a prayer.
It is called minaret. In Arabic, it is Me'ezana
A Minaret. It is where the call of prayer (Adhan) is called from.
The Minaret is the most famous section of the Great Mosque of Samarra.