A Minbar(Arabic: منبر but pronounced mimbar,
top of which the call to prayer is made Minbar(منبر) a raised pulpit in the mosque where
world to be preserved intact is the Minbar of the Great Mosque of Kairouan in the city of Kairouan in Tunisia.
In contrast to most Christian pulpits, the steps up to the Minbar are usually in a straight line on the same
In woodwork, one of the earliest surviving examples of
Islamic geometric art is the 13th-century Minbar(pulpit) of the Ibn Tulun Mosque in Cairo.
In some mosques there is a platform(müezzin mahfili in Turkish)
opposite the Minbar where the assistant of the Imam, the muezzin, stands during prayer.
Composed of an assembly of over three hundred finely sculpted parts, this Minbar is considered to be a jewel of Islamic wooden art.
The oldest Islamic pulpit in the
world to be preserved intact is the Minbar of the Great Mosque of Kairouan in the city of Kairouan in Tunisia.
The Minbar, the decoration of which some believe to be part of the sunnah,
is usually shaped like a small tower with a pointed roof and stairs leading up to it.
In contrast to most Christian pulpits, the steps up to the Minbar are usually in a straight line on the same
axis as the seat, as seen in those illustrated here.
A Minbar(Arabic: منبر but pronounced mimbar,
also romanized as mimber) is a pulpit in the mosque where the imam(prayer leader) stands to deliver sermons(خطبة, khutbah) or in the Hussainia where the speaker sits and lectures the congregation.
Minaret(منارة) a tower built onto a mosque from the
top of which the call to prayer is made Minbar(منبر) a raised pulpit in the mosque where
the Imam stands to deliver sermons Minhaj(منهج) methodology, e.g. methods, rules, system, procedures.