Minbar

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MINBAR منبر
The pulpit in a mosque from which the khutbah (or sermon) is recited. It consists of three steps and is sometimes a metal or wooden structure, and sometimes a mixture of brick or stone both against the wall. Muhammad in addressing the congregation stood on the uppermost

Burton says: "In the beginning the Prophet leaned, when fatigued, against a post, whilst preaching the khutbah or Friday sermon. The mimbar, or pulpit, was an invention of a Madinah man of the Banu Najjar. It was a wooden frame, two cubits long by one broad, with three steps, each one span high; on the topmost of these the Prophet sat when he required rest. The pulpit assumed its present form about A.H. 90, during the artistic reign of El Walid."

Based on <a href="https://www.juancole.com/library/books/encyclopedias/dictionary-of-islam-hughes ">Hughes, Dictionary of Islam</a>

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