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<IMG ALT="Minaret Icon" SRC="monar.gif" WIDTH=114 HEIGHT=114 ALIGN="LEFT"><H1 ALIGN="Right">Monar<BR>Minarets</H1>
<H5 ALIGN="Right">The Minaret plays an important role in religious architecture, standing as it does, like the letter "alef" as a
symbol of the link between heaven and earth in the vertical axis and as the delimiting point on the
horizontal one. More details of its role can be found under Fundamental Concepts.</H5>
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<LI><A HREF = "40dokht/40dokht.html">Monar-e-Chehel Dokhtaran (40 virgins minaret) </A> - 1107
<LI><A HREF = "sareban/sareban.html">Monar-e-Sareban (Camel Drivers' Minaret)</A> - 12th Century
<LI><A HREF = "ziar/ziar.html">Monar-e-Zar (The Minaret of Ziar)</A> - 12th Century
<LI><A HREF = "gar/gar.html">Monar-e-Gar (The Minaret of Gar)</A> - 12th Century
<LI><A HREF = "ziyafeh/ziyafeh.html">Dar Al Ziyafeh (The Portal of Ziyafeh)</A> - 14th Century
<LI><A HREF = "baxtagha/baxtagha.html">Soltan Bakht Agha (The Minarets of Dardasht)</A> - 14th
Century
<LI><A HREF = "kushkhan/kushkhan.html">Bagh-e-Kush Khana</A> - 14th Century
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