From the northwest corner of the mosque, the minaret rises. It has a square shaft with two portions, like the majority of Moroccan minarets: a larger main section ascending the majority of the way, followed by a second, much smaller square tower at the top. The main shaft is 22.8 meters tall and measures 5.7 meters on each side (the shaft is about exactly four times as tall as it is wide). The smaller tower at the summit is 6.4 meters tall and has a side measurement of 2.9 meters. The platform at the top of the main shaft is reached by a stairway inside the minaret that circles the tower’s central core. Historically, this allowed the muezzin to reach the top to sound the call to prayer.
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