From the balcony of a near-by minaret a muezzin sent forth the call to prayer: "God is great.
When the muezzin appears on the balcony of a minaret hundreds upon hundreds of faithful Moslems mount to their housetops and go through the gymnastic contortions of Mohammedan worship.
It gives me a right odd feeling to stand beside a mosque and see a muezzin come out on the balcony of a minaret and utter the call to prayer.
Among the edifices are some which present an unusual sight in these islands: on a promontory, a minaret raises its taper head; and on the hill behind, is a Turkish kisla, or barracks.
In the background are companies engaged in various festivities, and embosomed in the trees; behind is seen the sultan’s kiosk, with a never-failing minaretpeeping through the foliage.
The principal minaret was snapped off like the stem of a pipe, and the upper part was carried unbroken to a distance.
To mark its appropriation to the Prophet, a minaret was built at one of its angles, as was done at Santa Sophia, where the muezzin ascended, and called the faithful to pray in it.
Valid, the son of Abdalmalek, was the first who erected a minaret or turret; and this he placed on the grand mosque at Damascus, for the muezzin or crier to announce from it the hour of prayer.
Quick at the word they seized him each a torch, And fire the dome from minaret to porch.
The Franciscan convent is the most prominent structure, then a mosque with its white tapering minaret looms up from among the low buildings.
After the Ottoman Turks turned the church into a mosque, a minaret was erected at each of the four exterior angles.
In every Mohammedan city the hour of prayer is announced from the tall minaret of the mosque by a crier (muezzin).
Suddenly there appeared in the circular gallery of the minaret which overlooked the courtyard the figure of a tall, gray-bearded stranger, a mullah, whose green turban marked his lineal descent from the family of the Prophet.
As he spoke we saw smoke pouring from a dozen windows looking out upon the courtyard of the Temple of the Sun, and far above the highest minaret of Issus hung an ever-growing pall of smoke.
In the evening, strings of variegated lamps, with festoons of flowers, swing from minaret to minaret, and hang over the illuminated city like a faëry crown.
We found a tent pitched and the servants busy laying the cloth under a dense sycamore, close to an old mosque whose onion-shaped dome and Arab minaret gave me great pleasure as we came in sight of them.
Finished the delicate sketch of the loveliest bit of the canal, where the pink minaret and the black cypress are.
The sound of prayer mounted with her from the mosque, and when she came out upon the platform enclosed in the summit of the minaret she heard it still and it was multiplied.
While they stood there the nasal voice of the Mueddin rose from the minaret of the mosque of Beni-Mora, uttered its fourfold cry, and died away.
In the centre of it rose a mosque with a minaret and a number of cupolas, faintly gilded and shining modestly under the fierce rays of the sun.
On the minaret of the mosque of Sidi-Zerzour, while Androvsky remained in the dark shadow with a curse, she had mounted, with prayer, surely a little way towards God.
On the mosque of the minaret of Sidi-Zerzour she had surely seen prayer travelling, the soul of prayer travelling.
From mosque to mosque, andminaret to minaret, the sonorous and musical voices of the Muezzins had proclaimed the evening invitation to worship.
The minaret is reached by sunset; it turns out to be a lone shrine of some imam, from which it is yet two farsakhs to Subzowar.
The ropes were fastened to the summit of the minar, but at the first great pull the brick-work gave way and the top of the tall minaret came tumbling down with a crash and clatter, killing several of its would-be removers.
Sunset had come, and, with it, the Muezzin's call to prayer from the minaret of a mosque hard by.
As the muezzin from the minaret was shouting his last “mash-allah!
Upon the summit of this minaret I stood for a long time, looking down over the city.
There are two minarets, the minaret of the bird, and a larger one, approached by a big stairway up which, so my dragoman told me, a Sultan whose name I have forgotten loved to ride his favorite horse.
This dwelling, the ancient wall, the grey minaret with its motionless bird, the lamentable waste ground at my feet, prepared me rightly to appreciate the bit of old Cairo I had come to see.
Upon them looks down the Minaret of Abu Haggag; and as I sat in the sunshine, the warmth of which began to lessen, I saw upon its lofty circular balcony the figure of the muezzin.
Now from the minaret the muezzin cries, and in palm-shaded villages I hear the loud hymns of earnest pilgrims starting on the journey to Mecca.
Above me, on the roof, there was a gleam of palest blue, like the blue I have sometimes seen at morning on the Ionian sea just where it meets the shore.
I, Rameses the King," he murmurs, "behaved as a hero who knows his worth.
It is not very far from El-Kab, once the capital of Upper Egypt, and it is about two thousand years old.
This defensive spirit is incarnated in the stones of these ruins.
From the windows of the apartment, we had an excellent view, when the evening had closed in, of the illuminated mosques of the city, and the lines of light that hung like threads of fire from minaret to minaret.
So, as they slipped from the gardens into the silent streets, the muezzin's monotonous chant began from the shadowy minaret of the big mosque.
Here and there above the trees, the dome of a mosque or the minaret of a mausoleum told that the town of Lucknow, scattered yet coherent, lay among the groves.
It is now the Arabic Beit Lehia, which lies among the olive groves north of the city, and retains its religious character by the mosque and minaret which, no doubt, replaced the ancient temple.
The minaret at the Great Mosque, and two other minarets at the Sajaiah, were also constructed in their day.
From another minaret a Muezzin sang out over the town the Moslem call to prayer,-- "La ilaha ill Allah, Mohammed resoul Oullah.
It was late September now; the heat was still great, and the travellers were not sorry when at last they saw in the distance the black huts of Charmelik, the walls of the khan, and the minaret of the little mosque.
At the same moment, a green flag appeared on a minaret at the opposite side of the Armenian Quarter.
A lofty minaret rises above the little town, which is surrounded by a wall (Plate VI.
From the summit of a tall minaret criminals used to be thrown down to be dashed to pieces on the street.
I may, however, mention a particularly picturesque minaret of very solid construction.
