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Built of white marble that shimmers in both sunlight and moonlight, the Taj Mahal stands on an eighteen-foot-high marble platform which has a delicate minaret on each corner.
泰姬陵用白色大理石建成，在日光和月光下都会闪闪发光。它矗立在一个18英尺高的大理石上，平台的四角有四座精美的光塔。
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The explosion occurred in a low income neighborhood, near a wholesale flower market and a major heritage site: the 800-year-old Qutub Minar, the world's tallest brick minaret.
爆炸发生在一个低收入居民区，附近有一个花卉批发市场和重要的古迹--古伯特高塔，它是世界上最高的砖塔。
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The Giralda minaret is the masterpiece of Almohad architecture. It stands next to the cathedral with its five naves; the largest Gothic building in Europe, it houses the tomb of Christopher Columbus.
西拉尔达大寺院是阿尔默哈德时代的建筑杰作，在它旁边是塞维利亚大教堂，该大教堂共有五个大殿，是欧洲最大的哥特式建筑，教堂中存放着克里斯托弗·哥伦布的棺墓。

And,the air traffic control tower suggests a minaret that can be found on a mosque.

One reason, say churchmen, is that a minaret on the skyline might mislead first-time visitors.
ECONOMIST: Plans to build a mosque in Athens are in disarray
For all Tepebasi's dome-and-minaret orthodoxy, the practical merits of reinforced concrete over masonry mean they got barely a pastiche.
ECONOMIST: The architecture of mosques
Indeed, many of the older mosques lost nothing more than the odd minaret.
ECONOMIST: Turkey, flattened and in shock

a tall, thin tower on or near a mosque (= a Muslim holy building) from which Muslims are called to pray