The effect exercised by the splendors located in the Al-Nuri Mosque building site as one steps inside is magnetizing ... rebirth for the city of Mosul and Iraq, bent for years by the obscurantism ...

For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as a defining ... says the minaret was once a constant presence outside his window. He watched it stand through years ...