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Reconstruction of Mosul’s Al-Nouri Mosque Complex Al-Tahera Church and Al-Saa’a Church about to begin
The Joint Steering Committee of UNESCO’s project for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the Al-Nouri Mosque and its Al-Hadba Minaret, the Al-Tahera Church and Al-Saa’a Church, on 6 May determined future steps for the reconstruction of the three architectural landmarks of the Old City of Mosul (Iraq), part of UNESCO’s Revive the Spirit of Mosul initiative.
Next steps, following the results of the architectural competition that were made public on April 15, will focus on the development of a detailed design giving priority to the rehabilitation of the eastern part of the Complex, which includes the Al Nouri Prayer Hall. This symbolic building will be rebuilt as it was before its destruction in 2017 with some improvements in line with the wishes of the residents of Mosul, as reported in a survey by the University of Mosul last year.
Assessing the damage: Isis blew up a carved platform in the museum’s Assyrian Hall, leaving an enormous crater Sebastian Meyer/Smithsonian Institution
When Pope Francis recently visited Mosul Iraq’s most diverse city, with historic Muslim, Christian, Jewish and Yazidi communities it was a piercing reminder of how its religious pluralism was targeted by the Islamic State (Isis). Occupying the city for three years, Isis’s fundamentalist fighters waged a battle for absolute control.
By the time Mosul was liberated by Iraqi government forces in July 2017, most of the artefacts in the Mosul Cultural Museum had been destroyed or looted. An international partnership was quickly launched to try and salvage what remained, coordinated by specialists from the Smithsonian Institution, the Musée du Louvre, the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage and the Aliph Foundation, which gave $1.3m in funding. The project has now entered its second phase: the reconstr
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