Iraq's famed 'hunchback' of Mosul rebuilt brick by brick
Raw Storyby Rouba El Husseini The leaning minaret of Mosul in northern Iraq has been restored using its original brickwork, years after it was reduced to rubble under Islamic State group rule. The Al-Hadba minaret of today is an exact replica of the old one, "built with the same bricks", said Abdullah Mahmoud of the Iraqi department of antiquities. "The minaret's body from the inside needed 96,000 new bricks," Mahmoud said. Maria Acetoso, senior project manager at UNESCO Iraq, said the project aimed "to work in parallel on meaningful monuments for the city and also to bring life back" to Mosul. In Mosul on Wednesday, UNESCO chief Audrey Azoulay hailed her team's efforts and said on that the renovation had allowed "the identity of the city" to return.
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