Eight years after Daesh militants destroyed the mosque, Iraq’s prime minister presided over the formal reopening of the ancient Al-Nuri Grand Mosque and its leaning tower in the center of Mosul’s Old City on Monday. For around 850 years, the mosque’s slanting minaret was a recognizable sight. The so-called “caliphate” was established there in 2014 by Daesh leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, who conducted prayers and gave a Friday sermon. Later, after the Daesh organization lost a fight with Iraqi security forces in 2017 for control of the city, they detonated explosives inside the mosque to demolish it.
In collaboration with Iraqi heritage and Sunni religious authorities, UNESCO the United Nations’ scientific, educational, and cultural agency reconstructed the minaret using traditional methods and materials recovered from the debris.
Large portions of the $115 million funded by UNESCO for the rebuilding project came from the European Union and the United Arab Emirates. In a statement, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani said that the mosque’s restoration “will remain a milestone, reminding all enemies of the heroism of Iraqis, their defense of their land, and their rebuilding of everything destroyed by those who want to obscure the truth.
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