Minaret · Balaš

Alminar de Árchez

Today: Alminar de Árchez, Árchez

Place
Balaš (Vélez-Málaga)
Kind
Minaret
Built
12th to 14th century
What remains
Standing

The minaret of a mosque, now the tower of the church of the Encarnación: 15 metres of brick and rubble with sebka panels, interlaced horseshoe arches and traces of paint. Its date and style are disputed: the article calls it Almohad, yet compares it with 13th and 14th-century North African minarets and considers it Marinid in style. The roof is Christian.

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