[Cyrus]

There will be two 230 meters high minarets in Tehran's largest mosque, at the top of each one some buildings have been built which will be used as museums and for other purposes.

 

[Jasonhouse]

The News and Developments forum is for projects that are announced, but not yet U/C. This thread belongs in the construction forum.

 

[Urban Dave]

mg: !!!!!!!! They are huge minarets!

 

[Dubai-Lover]

they look impressively tall, but still not as nice as smaller usual minarets

 

[Cyrus]

The News and Developments forum is for projects that are announced, but not yet U/C. This thread belongs in the construction forum.

sorry you are right!

they look impressively tall, but still not as nice as smaller usual minarets

Ok these minarets will be also decorated with patterned tiles and hopefully as beautiful as other minarets.

 

[Justadude]

Are these practical for use as minarets? I admit I'm a little ignorant of how mosques work, but I understand the minarets are used for calls to prayer. Wouldn't these need to have massive speakers and create a huge amount of noise pollution?

 

[Cyrus]

If you look at the middle of these minarets, you will see that there are already some massive speakers.

 

[Bahraini Spirit]

Nice. The ones that were supposed to be the tallest were the minarets of the Saddam Mosque that never got completed (280 m).

Any idea how many worshippers this one can fit and the cost by any chance?

 

[EuroMaster]

this antenna building with the same height in Rotterdam (Netherlands) looks like a bit the same.

impressing for a religious building!!!

 

[skyperu34]

they're huge !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Hed Kandi]

Huge indeed but i do not find them very nice looking.
The tall one in morocco i prefer over this type.

 

[1st Division Marine]

inshallah.

 

[29A]

Beautifull!
Clearly the most charming city in the islamic world. Go Tehran!

 

[DamienK]

They look more like tv towers.

 

[Genç]

Wow! When will the whole thing be completed?

 

[Trances]

afraid your right DamienK
I would be looking to when they are closer to being complete and one would hope better looking

 

[Cyrus]

Nice. The ones that were supposed to be the tallest were the minarets of the Saddam Mosque that never got completed (280 m).

280 meters ?!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,717172,00.html

The Scud-style minarets were each 43 metres high to mark the "43 days of US aggression". Another minaret was 37 metres high, to represent the year of Saddam's birth, 1937.

 

[Justadude]

^ He's talking about one that was never constructed.

 

[Cyrus]

He's talking about one that was never constructed.

I said about it too.

Three million prayers in Tehran Grand Mosalla:

 

[Küsel]

That't increadably impressive! WOW!!