The world’s second tallest minaret, the Minaret of Jam in Afghanistan built in the XII Century AD is on UNESCO’s List of World’s Endangered Monuments. The 60m tall structure sits precariously at the junction of two rivers and is in danger of collapse due to a 3.4 inclination inducing high stresses in its deteriorated brick masonry. These conditions of the monument render it more susceptible to natural geohazards like earthquakes. Consequently, prior to intervention, it is of foremost importance to assess the seismic hazard at the site. Jam lies in close proximity of the Herat fault, a prominent strike-slip lineament in northern Afghanistan. For most of its length the fault has not been associated in recent history with the occurrence of large earthquakes. Although no earthquake epicenters have been reported in catalogues close to Jam, seismically active zones of Kabul, Mazar-i-Sahrif, Bamiyan and the Hindukush subduction zone lie few hundred kilometers away from Jam. This article illustrates the results of a Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment (PSHA) performed using the Cornell-McGuire method with a systematic treatment of uncertainties in a logic-tree framework. Uniform hazard spectra have been determined for return periods of 72, 224, 475 and 975 years. The study also includes some results derived from a Deterministic Seismic Hazard Analysis (DSHA) at the site.