The mosque arrived in Inuvik last month to serve a growing Muslim population in Canada's far north, after travelling 4,000 kilometres over land and water.
The minaret -- built locally and installed this week -- has four levels and stands 10 metres off the ground.
"It's really beautiful when we turn on the lights in the dark," Amier Suliman, a mosque committee member, told AFP on Wednesday.
Only finishing touches -- applying a second coat of paint inside, and connecting bathroom plumbing -- remain before the mosque's grand opening next week.
"This is the first minaret to be erected in the Arctic," Suliman said gleefully by telephone.
"Some will say it's a new frontier for Islam," he commented.
"But for me, what is significant is that Muslims here who once prayed on Fridays at a local Catholic church or in a trailer, now have a proper place to worship, with a proper minaret."
The number of Muslims in Inuvik, a town of 4,000 inhabitants in Canada's Northwest Territories, has grown steadily in recent years to about 80 and they no longer fit in an old three-by-seven-metre caravan previously used for prayers.
The congregation could not afford to build a new mosque in the town, where prices for labour and materials were substantially higher than in southern parts of Canada, project coordinator Ahmad Alkhalaf said previously.
But they found a supplier of prefabricated buildings in Manitoba that said it could ship a structure to Inuvik for half the price of building a mosque from scratch on site.
It was transported via truck and river barge to the town, about 200 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle for the worshippers -- largely Sunni Muslim immigrants from Sudan, Lebanon and Egypt.
