The custodial guide identifies four: Ghawanima, Asbat or Tribes Gate, Fakhriyya or Moroccan Gate, and Chain Gate. Each has its own Explore record, with a photograph and source-linked account of its form and history.[1]
The four minarets in the custodial guide
The guide identifies Ghawanima, Asbat or Tribes Gate, Fakhriyya or Moroccan Gate, and Chain Gate minarets. They stand around the enclosure rather than forming one uniform group in the central courtyard. Alternate English names reflect translation and nearby gates, not additional towers.[1]
They do not all have the same form
The same guide describes square and cylindrical profiles and associates the towers with different construction or rebuilding phases. A shared function and period label do not make their visible architecture identical. The count names standing towers in that inventory; it does not make their foundations, upper stages or restorations contemporary. Each minaret needs its own location, fabric and chronology checked separately.[1]
Find all four in Explore
Each of the four minarets has an individual record in Explore, with its English and Arabic names, photograph, architectural description and references. Filter by Minarets to compare them. The diagram points remain illustrative rather than geographic, and the sources’ conflicting construction dates are stated explicitly where they remain unresolved. Photographs and historical records do not establish current access to a tower.[1][2]
Sources & references
References are attached to the passages they support. Dates below record source consultation.
- A Guide to Al-Aqsa Mosque / Al-Haram Ash-Sharif (2015)
pp. 30–31
PASSIA · Jerusalem Awqaf · Hashemite Fund · Consulted 2026-09-14
- Al-Ghawanima Minaret
Madain Project · Consulted 2026-09-14