Can mosques and minarets be suggested individually as waypoints?
Can you give us an example? I can imagine a situation where the Mosque is submitted as a great place to socialize due to its religious function and a minaret (maybe just one) is submitted as a great example of a style of architecture. But I need more details on the specific case.
Some Christian churches are able to have the steeple or a cross or a stained glass window as a separate POI from the church if there’s enough proof that they are significant or interesting.
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Yeah I’d have thought it would be unique architecture for the minaret vs social/community for the mosque itself but reviewers might decide to call it a duplicate, probably depends on the submissions
Here is an example
The minarets can be seen, but the focus is on the mosque. I submitted the minarets earlier and I’m curious to see what will happen. As you can see, they are not really connected.
First, you’re showing us a screenshot from the Wayfarer App. I want to make sure you know that nominations made in this app do not go live in games.
Second, we would need to see the whole nomination since you’ve already made it to tell you your chances of it being approved.
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I’ll be honest, I don’t think this will be accepted. As I’m reading about what a minaret is, it seems that every mosque has one. So unless it is a unique example of one or has some special history attached to it, I wouldn’t expect it to be a POI separate from the mosque. This one looks pretty standard to me.
I would expect the treatment to be precisely the same as in your examples. If there is artistry or architecture or history or feeling associated with the feature it could be considered as a POI in its own right.
These qualities (especially those in the realms of art and feelings) are best left to the discretion of the community.
Isn’t this basically like submitting the church and the church’s tower separately? I don’t see why these would be considered two separate things. It’s two parts of the same building.
People do that in the US. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. We call that a “steeple” in English.
For a good example of when it might work…
Old North Church near Boston. The building and steeple might be approved separately because the steeple is literally famous in US history.
“Old North Church is famous for its role in Paul Revere’s midnight ride on April 18, 1775. On that night, the church’s sexton, Robert Newman hung two lanterns in the church’s steeple, which alerted Revere and the other riders to British military movements prior to the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first engagements of the American Revolutionary War.”
This is a unique circumstance, but I don’t rule out that there are other unique situations where the steeple could independently be a POI. It just wouldn’t be the norm.
Please let us know if it does get accepted. Personally, if reviewing I would accept.
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