The member of the Board of Directors at the Imam Ali (PBUH) Holy Shrine Fatih al-Kirmani said in a statement to the Media Center, "The minaret is one of the historical and archaeological monuments that is as old as the whole Shrine.

We have reached advanced phases of the renovation and gilding project in the golden Iwan facing the al-Sa'aa gate."

"The phases of the project included the removal of the gold plated bricks, maintaining them and returning them to their original place without changing the measurements and the fixed specifications in order to preserve their moral and archaeological value," he added.

Eng. Falah Al-Sarraf stated that "Completion rates in the southern minaret exceeded (70%). The first step was numbering the metal plates (bricks), then maintaining them in the gold workshop for removing impurities, building materials, nails, etc., and the last step is to put them back where they exactly where."

Source: imamali.net