Dikka

 Dikka (from Arabic: دكة dikka) is a term in Islamic architecture for a tribune raised upon columns from which the Quran is recited and prayers are intoned by the imam of a mosque.[1]

The dikka in the Mosque of Sultan Hasan in Cairo

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