Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Historic Centre of Bukhara' has mentioned 'Minaret' in the following places:
Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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Kalyan or Kalon Minor (Persian: xd9x85xd9x86xd8xa7xd8xb1xd9x87 xdaxa9xd9x84xd8xa7xd9x86xe2x80x8e) (Great Minaret) | WIKI |
The title Po-i Kalan (also Poi Kalxc3xa2n, Persian: xd9xbexd8xa7xdbx8c xdaxa9xd9x84xd8xa7xd9x86xe2x80x8e meaning the "Grand Foundation") belongs to the architectural complex located at the base of the great minaret Kalxc3xa2n. | WIKI |
More properly, Minxc3xa2ra-i Kalxc3xa2n, (Persian/Tajik for the "Grand Minaret"). | WIKI |
The minaret is the most famed part of the ensemble, and dominates over historical center of the city. | WIKI |
The role of the minaret is largely for traditional and decorative purposesxe2x80x94its dimension exceeds the bounds of the main function of the minaret, which is to provide a vantage point from which the muezzin can call out people to prayer. | WIKI |
The word "minaret" derives from the Arabic word "minara" ("lighthouse", or more literally "a place where something burn"). | WIKI |
[18] The architect, whose name was simply Bako, designed the minaret in the form of a circular-pillar brick tower, narrowing upwards. | WIKI |
Then moving back step by step, one can count all belts of brickwork of the minaret to the rotunda. | WIKI |
From the 11th century Karakhanid period comes the outstanding Poi-Kalyan minaret, a masterpiece of decoration in brick, along with most of the Magoki Attori mosque and the Chashma Ayub shrine. | UNESCO |