https://www.pitara.com/tags/gujarat-landmarks/Recent content in Gujarat Landmarks on Pitara Kids NetworkHugoen-usSat, 13 Jun 2026 21:46:31 +0530https://www.pitara.com/science-for-kids/5ws-and-h/where-are-the-shaking-minarets/Thu, 15 Feb 2001 22:32:46 +0000https://www.pitara.com/science-for-kids/5ws-and-h/where-are-the-shaking-minarets/<p>Among the many architectural marvels of the world, like the leaning tower of Pisa, the whispering gallery at St Paul&rsquo;s Cathedral at London or the musical pillars of South India, are the astonishing and historical shaking minarets of Ahmedabad, in Gujarat state, India. The minarets are so unique that if one minaret in shaken, the other sympathetically shakes too!</p> <p>Barely a kilometre away from the Ahmedabad city railway station is the Sidi Bashir mosque (Muslim equivalent of a temple) famed for its <em>jhulta minars</em> or shaking minarets (tall tower-like structures, either at the entrance gate or on the four corners).</p>