Minbar

The pulpit of a congregational mosque, from which the Friday sermon is delivered. The minbar is typically a freestanding stepped wooden structure to the right of the miḥrāb (prayer niche), often elaborately carved and marked as a focus of craft patronage. Minbars are not characteristic of the rural kasbah and ksar corpus that is the central focus of this archive but appear in the small mosques attached to several major southern Moroccan ksour and zawiyas, and the term is included for cross-reference.