Firoz Minar

West Bengal · India

Firoz Minar, India
Photo: Amitabha Gupta, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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This tall fluted tower at Gaur was raised in the late 15th century, possibly as a victory column or muezzin's minaret. Its tapering brick shaft, banded in stone, rises above the ruined capital of the Bengal sultans.

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