At dawn, the amplified strains of the call to prayer issue from tapering minarets in every suburb.
Even here where restoration is futile, Uzbeks are busy righting minarets and retouching Koranic script.
In Cologne, critics deplore the proposed mosque's visibility, and the height of its minarets.
Soon there was a thick black pall of smoke hanging low over the apartment blocks and minarets.
Elsewhere, much has changed: Ottoman minarets pierce the sky and outside the old city the prosperous Akko is unmistakably modern Israel.
Belgium has passed similar legislation, and Switzerland banned the building of minarets, the tall spires that often stand next to mosques.
Although Baghdad's grey skyline is dotted with blue domes and tiled minarets, there is not enough room for the new devout.
In Genoa, a leftist mayor has imposed even stiffer conditions (like a bar on minarets) on a mosque-building effort that began last year.
Though hardly revolutionary, this went down badly with religious traditionalists, who likened their minimalist minarets to rocket, and had the competition results annulled.
Lots of tall minarets that drones must avoid or collide with.
Local politicians grumble that its minarets will rise higher than the floodlights of the neighbouring football stadium, a secular city's equivalent of the local cathedral.
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Istanbul, set at the border of the East and West and with a skyline studded by domes and minarets, was the favourite city of Bond author Ian Fleming.
The Selimiye Mosque, in Edirne, a city in northwest Turkey, is a magnificent stone edifice, with four minarets and an austere, octagonal-shaped body supporting a large dome.
As a result, the Old City is still a place of shadowy mosques and teeming bazaars clustered around the Charminar, a 16th-century landmark with four distinctive minarets.
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From the garden that fronts the main entrance, Hyderabad appears as an expanse of white and pastel-colored cubes punctuated by minarets and framed by ridges of tawny rock.
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Germany lacks the republican assertiveness of France, which bars schoolgirls from wearing headscarves, and the populist self-confidence of Switzerland, which voted to ban minarets in a referendum last November.
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Indeed, it was Fox Talbot himself who made the first recorded images of Brighton in the winter of 1846 when he pointed his lens at the exotic domes and minarets of the Brighton Pavilion.
According to Mr. Cassar, the local authorities have worked very hard on carrying out conservation activities on the monument and for finding solutions to control heavy traffic in the vicinity of the endangered minarets in the Musalla Complex.
Curious, she travels out of Lagos to corners of the country many Nigerians never see: to the Transwonderland Amusement Park, to the beauty of the eastern mountains and to the northern city of Kano with its modestly covered women and its forest of ancient minarets.
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