Konya as a Turkish city with a history stretching back to the early Seljuk era has a wide variety of striking minaret styles, ...

Over time, while other monuments inside the site underwent reconstruction, the minaret remained untouched. For this reason, the original parts of the medieval complex — a point of historical ...

It can accommodate a staggering 120,000 people inside and its minaret is nearly twice the height of the Pyramid of Giza. The mega-project also has a library, a university, and a training centre.

So, the minaret must be visible from the outer limits ... and they were still finding explosives inside the mosque. And the workers stopped a couple of weeks ago. Yeah. Up to a couple of weeks ...