Mazar i Sharif mark.

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Originally Posted by AJ1356

.. I thought I had corrected this b4. The mark is called Mehrab o Munbar, it is not a representation of a mosque but the representation of the ("alter area"/prayer area for the Imam) of the inside of a traditional mosque.

A search of Mihrab/Minbar would give you detail explaination and also more pictures. I just took one of the recent Afghan seals and marked the Mihrab and Minbar ..

Kindly allow me to correctly name those objects in the picture of the Afghan seal, please!

1. Babu-l-masjid is the gate of entrance to the mosque.

2. Mimbar (Arabic: منبر‎, also romanized as minbar) is a pulpit in the mosque where the imam (prayer leader) stands to deliver sermons (خطبة, khutbah). The word is a derivative of the Arabic root n-b-r ("to raise, elevate"); the Arabic plural is manābir (Arabic: منابر‎).

3. Mihrab (Arabic: محراب‎ miḥrāb, pl. محاريب mahārīb) is semicircular niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the qibla; that is, the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca and hence the direction that Muslims should face when praying.