The tower is the mosque with 7 Most Unique - In this world there are millions of mosques scattered throughout the country. model and shape also vary. Other regions have different shapes. Each display peculiar. There is a general model such as lighthouses, Octagonal, square, up a spiral shape.
Here are seven minarets unique form:
Here are seven minarets unique form:
1. Ghost Tower
The mosque is located in the Holy City, Central Java, was built in 956 AD H/1549 The mosque is famous with its unique tower, which is part of the tomb complex Festival. The tower is basically mimics the time of Majapahit temple consisting of leg and body building a tiered hem and seam-flat as a limit. Part of the tower walls made of brick material. While the top of the tower-shaped roof collapsed with wood construction. Decoration field, even though it was disguised, still looks like traces of decoration on the temple building.
2. Istiqlal Mosque Jakarta
Istiqlal Mosque is one of the mosques in Indonesia that puts a modern Islamic architectural styles. This modern architectural styles also appear on the minarets. Building the tower that serves as a muezzin call to prayer echoes a prayer time arrives sign is built up and have tapered holes in the walls. The holes are to reduce the pressure and wind gusts. This tower has a height of 66.66 meters with a diameter of five meters. The height of this tower as a symbol of the number of verses contained in the Koran. While the above is the muezzin call to prayer echoes spire made of stainless steel weighing 28 tons with a height of 30 meters.
3. Great Mosque of Banten
This mosque is one of the oldest in Java. The mosque was built by Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin (1552-1570) located on the side of the square and on the north palace. Tower of the Great Mosque of Banten shaped lighthouse with a European style that looks less harmonious with building the mosque. Initially, before it functioned as a mosque tower, the tower was used as a beacon and lookout tower for the Port of Banten a frequent target of attacks by the forces of Europe as a rival Dutch. The tower was built by a Dutch architect, Hendrik Lucasz Cardeel, who works in the port city in the 17th century AD
4. Iranian Mosque of Samarra
Forms typical spiral tower used in the mosques in Iraq who adopted the tradition of building towers in Mesopotamia. Iranian Mosque and the Mosque of Samarra in Iraq Dullaf which has a spiral-shaped tower. You could say this both as a relic tower architecture that gives the impression that the calculation of the geometry of the architects of the day was very accurate. These two minarets that even today still standing, despite being 1,200 years old.Another mosque also has a spiral tower is the mosque of Ibn Tulun in Fustat, Egypt. 5. Emin mosque tower
The only prominent octagonal-shaped minaret located in Chefchaouen China named Emin Minaret was built in 1778 by Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty (1735-1796). This tower has a height of 44 meters (144 feet) and is the tallest minarets in China. The tower is made of wood and brick. The model is very elegant circular-shaped and tapered to the top. Widest diameter of the tower 14 meters (46 feet) at the bottom, while the upper diamaternya about 2.8 meters.
6. Mosque of Hassan II, Morocco
Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco, listed as a mosque with the tallest tower in the world. The tower is like scratching the sky with an altitude reaching 210 meters. Designed by French architecture, Michel Pinseau, this mosque was built by Bouyges in 1980. Every night, at the top of the tower, there is a laser beam leading to Makkah. The building is magnificent and spacious overlooking the waters of the Atlantic. The mosque stands on a peninsula of land reclamation. Construction of Mosque Hassan II Moroccan inspired by verses of the Koran sura Hud [11] paragraph 7, "Throne of His (before that) on the water." This mosque can accommodate more than 30 thousand worshipers.
7. Great Mosque of Xi'an
Tower of the Great Mosque of Xi'an is quite unique because it describes the original architecture of China. This tower combines two functions; months watching pavilions and towers. The exterior of the mosque are decorated with blue glass tiles and dragon heads.Inside, the ceiling of brightly painted carved with lotus flowers. This mosque was built during the Ming Dynasty's 700 Hijri (1400 AD) by Admiral Cheng Ho.