'Parisians are not alone in their loss and the people of Mosul and Aleppo share a common pain and show a collective will to rebuild.' Opinion | ialmarashi
The Notre Dame fire, however, served as a reminder of the frailty of sacred architecture as well. For example, the Paris disaster helped galvaniseIn this vein, the destruction and efforts to rebuild destroyed sacred architecture in Iraq and Syria serves as a poignant reminder and perhaps inspiration of resilience. They show that Parisians are not alone in their loss and that the people of Mosul and Aleppo share a common pain and show a collective will to rebuild.
The Great Mosque of Mosul, known as the Al Nuri mosque, featured a leaning minaret, colloquially referred to as Al Hadba, which served as a symbol of the city. The mosque and its iconic minaret were destroyed by Daesh as it retreated from the city in the summer of 2017. The Umayyad mosque of Aleppo also had an iconic leaning minaret. It too was destroyed in 2013 during Syria’s civil war, along with most of the mosque itself.
One takes for granted that Christianity and Islam will survive even if their iconic religious structures are destroyed. Most of Iraq’s Yezidis fled into exile. The Yezidi faith is integrally linked to the physical space that the Islamic State destroyed, connected to a network of sacred places within the areas of their sacred homeland in northern Iraq.
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