Mosul Al-Nuri Historical Mosque and Al-Hadba Minaret rose again

Mosul’s historic buildings, including churches and mosques, reopened after the destruction of the Iraqi State of Iraq (IS).

The project organized and funded by UNESCO, started out of the city and started out of the city, north of Iraq in 2017.

UNESCO Audrey Azoulay took part on Wednesday to open it on Wednesday.

Local artisans, residents and representatives of all the religious communities of Mosul.

In 2014, Mosul is occupied, as it was seen as a symbol of tolerance and coexistence between different religious and ethnic communities in Iraq.

The team imposed his extreme ideology in the city, directed to minorities and killing opponents.

Three years later, with the Iraqi Army and the military of the States of the States, the alliance coalition mounted on the ground and the offensive air to control the city. The blood most bloody focused on the old city, where the team fighters took a final stand.

Mosul photographers Ali Al-Baroodi reminds him of the fear of the horror when he finished the Battle of Street on the Summer Street in 2017.

He saw the glorious minaret Al-Hadba, known as the name “Hunchback”, was terrible in Mosules for hundreds of years in the waste.

“It was like a ghost town,” he noted. “Deadly around, without urban scent and tremendous scents and horizons without Hadba pain.

“We didn’t know the city – we never imagined that we didn’t imagine our worst nightmares. I fell silent for a couple of days. I lost my mind. I lost my mind.”

Mosul was destroyed by eighty percent of the old city, on the western edge of Tigris, during the three-year occupation.

The churches, mosques, and old people were not only needed, was also the community spirit of those who lived among the relative harmony between religions and ethnices.

The tremendous role of reconstruction began under UNESCO, the agency of $ 115 million (budget 93 million) obtained the battery, from the United Arab Emirates and the European Union.

Father Olivier Poquillon – Mosul returned to a resort to one of the key buildings, the Convent of Notre-Dame de l’Heure, who was now known as Al-Saa’a, was founded almost 200 years ago.

“We started to gather the team first. A group of people from old mosules of different nominations – Christians, Muslims working together,” he noted.

Father Poquillon says that association communities was the biggest challenge and it was the greatest achievement.

“If you want to rebuild the buildings, reconstruct reliable, it is not useless to reconstruct the walls of these buildings to become the target of other communities.”

Head of the whole project – 124 The restoration of the old house and has been the restoration of two beautiful palaces. Maria Rita acetoso has been the main architect, which came directly to restoration work for UNESCO Afghanistan.

“This project shows that culture can also create works, which can encourage the development of skills and also involve something significant,” he said.

The reconstruction can regain hope and allows people to recover the cultural identity and memory of people.

“I think this is especially important for younger generations that are growing in the state of conflict and political instability,” he added.

The UNESCO says more than 1,300 young people have been trained in traditional skills, and 6,000 new jobs have been created.

More than 100 classrooms were renovated in Mosul. Thousands of historical parts were recovered and cataloged from waste.

Among the engineers involved in the reconstruction, 30% were women.

For eight years, the bells are calling again through the Al-Tahera Church, and their roof fell after serious damage in 2017.

Other important milestones in Mosul have also been restored – Al-Hadba, the Convent of the Dominican Al-Saa’a and the complex of Al-Nouriko Mosque.

People have been able to return to homes who have been families over the centuries.

A resident, Mustafa said: “My house was built in 1864 – unfortunately, it was destroyed in the liberation of Mosul and was not inappropriate to live there, especially with my children.

“So I decided to go to my parents’ house. I was very happy and excited to see my house again reconstructed again.”

Abdullah family has also lived in a house in the old city. It was a site for wool trading in the 16th century. Therefore, their house is so precious.

“After UNESCO rebuilt my house, I came back,” he said. “I can’t describe the feeling because it happened there because he saw all the destruction there, I could not return again and I could live again.”

The scars of what people suffered by Mosul are still healed, Iraqi remains in a fragile situation.

The waste of the elderly, however, expresses hope for a better future, Ali Al-Baroodi continues to document the evolution of his loved day by day.

“It’s a very beautiful way to see a dead way to see a dead way to see a very beautiful way. That’s the real spirit of the city will return to life,” he said.

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