Minbar
![Minbar of the Molla Çelebi Mosque in Istanbul.](/Images/godic/202501/27/İstanbul_54370151.jpg")
![Picture showing the minbar of the Great Mosque of Kairouan (Mosque of Uqba); this pulpit, the oldest in existence, is still in its place of origin (in the prayer hall of the mosque) and it is protected by a glass panel in order to preserve this precious preaching chair, in Kairouan, Tunisia.](/Images/godic/202501/27/MinbarMosqueKairouan0151.jpg")
![Muslim scholar Ammar Nakshawani delivering a lecture from a minbar in Dar es Salaam's Hussainia as part of the Ramadan ceremonies.](/Images/godic/202501/27/Ammar_Nakshawani_on_Mimbar_edit10152.jpg")
![The doors of the Saladin Minbar, early 1900s. The minbar was built on Nur al-Din's orders, but installed by Saladin](/Images/godic/202501/27/Saladin_Minbar-Aqsa0152.JPG")
A minbar (Arabic:منبر, also romanized as mimbar or mimber) is a pulpit in the mosque where the imam (prayer leader) stands to deliver sermons (خطبة, khutbah) or in the Hussainia where the speaker sits and lectures the congregation. The word is a derivative of the Arabic root n-b-r ("to raise, elevate"); the Arabic plural is manābir (Arabic:منابر).