Eight years after the Iraqi city was left in ruins, Mosul’s rich multicultural heritage is slowly but surely beginning to flower again ...
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Mosul’s Grand al-Nuri Mosque, known for its eight-century-old leaning minaret, destroyed by Islamic ...
The Umayyad Mosque is also distinguished by being the first mosque in which the mihrab and the apse appeared as a result of the building style that was the former Church of John the Baptist. As for ...
Reconstruction and restoration of the mosque and minaret were carried out in partnership with the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO, the European Union (EU) and the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and ...
Mahmoud Thannon, 70, a tailor who lives near the mosque and runs a tailor shop overlooking the mosque’s minaret, said his two sons were killed before the al-Hadba minaret was demolished.
Mosul’s Grand al-Nuri Mosque, known for its eight-century-old leaning minaret, destroyed by ISIS militants in 2017, has been ...