After years of careful restoration work, Mosul’s skyline has reclaimed one of its most beloved symbols, with Unesco placing the final brick in the city’s landmark Al Nuri Mosque minaret.
Marco Werman: Can you describe the old Al-Hadba minaret for us? It was centuries old, right? It’s part of the al-Nuri mosque, and famously, that minaret was leaning to one side, right?
Other major landmarks of Mosul have also been restored - that wriggling minaret of al-Hadba, the Dominican al-Saa'a Convent and the complex of Al-Nouri mosque. And people have been able to return ...
MOSUL, Iraq - Mosul’s Grand al-Nuri Mosque, known for its eight-century-old leaning minaret, destroyed by Islamic State militants in 2017, has been renovated in a boost for Iraq's second city as ...
The Al-Hadba minaret in Mosul, Iraq has been successfully ... Efforts also restored the Al-Nuri Mosque and key religious landmarks, symbolizing the city's reclaim of its cultural identity.