PARIS (AN) — The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization announced on Wednesday that its US$100 million plan to reconstruct northern Iraqi city of Mosul's heritage, including famed al-Nuri mosque destroyed by the Islamic State group, will get underway next year.
UNESCO said the restoration timetable for the 12th-century mosque, whose leaning minaret was one of Mosul's most famous landmarks, was decided at a meeting between the United Nations agency's director-general, Audrey Azoulay, and Iraq's culture minister, Abdulamir al-Dafar Hamdani, and Mosul’s regional governor, Mansour al-Mareed.
