The Minar - or Minaret - was a spiral tower built in the center of the Sassanian circular city of Gōr, now the modern Firuzabad. Gōr had a circular layout, and The Minar was at its center, is hollow, and constructed of granite and masonry. Archaeologists and those that study antiquities think that The Minar was part of a government building and symbolized the divine and centralist kingship.