minaret

distinctive architectural feature of mosques
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minaret

Summary

minaret ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (913 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • minaret's image is recorded as Tower of the Great Mosque of Kairouan.JPG[2].
  • minaret's image is recorded as View from Mardin to the Mesopotamian plains.jpg[3].
  • minaret's image is recorded as Chinese-style minaret of the Great Mosque.jpg[4].
  • minaret's image is recorded as Mosque Minaret, Linxia.jpg[5].
  • minaret's image is recorded as Flickr - Omar A. - IMG 2146, Minaret of a mosque in China.jpg[6].
  • minaret's GND ID is recorded as 4239510-0[7].
  • minaret's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85085477[8].
  • minaret's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11980610g[9].
  • minaret's IdRef ID is recorded as 027853330[10].
  • minaret's subclass of is recorded as religious tower building[11].
  • minaret's part of is recorded as mosque[12].
  • minaret's Commons category is recorded as Minarets[13].
  • minaret's pronunciation audio is recorded as LL-Q9610 (ben)-Tahmid-মিনার.wav[14].
  • minaret's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 77697[15].
  • minaret's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01hyjv[16].
  • minaret's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph412782[17].
  • minaret's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Minarets[18].
  • minaret's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300007535[19].
  • minaret's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 297.351[20].
  • minaret's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 726.2[21].
  • minaret's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as tower:type=minaret[22].
  • minaret's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[23].
  • minaret's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[24].
  • minaret's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[25].
  • minaret's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[26].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for minaret include Menareh Mosque[27], a mosque[28], in Iran[29] and Do Menareh Mosque[30], a mosque[31], in Iran[32].

Why It Matters

minaret ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (913 views/month).[1] minaret has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] minaret is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

Entities named for minaret include Menareh Mosque[27], a mosque[28], in Iran[29] and Do Menareh Mosque[30], a mosque[31], in Iran[32].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . lingualibre.org. lingualibre.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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