Minarets Gallery

Mitchells Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota, USA

Mitchell's Corn Palace, The World's Only Corn Palace at Mitchell, South Dakota, USA. The card notes that this building is redecorated annually at a cost of $10, 000 in natural colored grains and grasses. The annual festival is held the last week in September and the building is open free the year around. It is the most outstanding exhibit of nature's wonderful colors blended into interesting designs and pictures by skilled decorators'. The Russian-style onion domes and Moorish minarets were added in 1937. Date: circa 1937

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

City of Tiberias on the Sea of Galilee, Israel

The city of Tiberias on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee (Kinneret, Lake of Gennesaret, Lake Tiberias), Lower Galilee, Israel.
1920s

© Mary Evans / Pharcide

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The Blue Mosque, Cairo, Egypt

The Blue Mosque (or the Aqsunqur Mosque) located in Cairo, Egypt is one of several blue mosques in the world. Completed in 1347, the Blue Mosque, located in the heart of Islamic Cairo, is of Mamluk origin. Date: circa 1906

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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