Like a pinball, the word "apostate" bounced from minaret to minaret across Cairo, and by the following Friday, in sermons across the country, preachers went after Nasr—even in his own village.
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BRITAIN'S newest mosque has neither a dome nor a minaret.
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The 11th century minaret was destroyed by shelling in 2013.
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A chandelier fit for a minaret hangs from a gold ceiling.
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At Al Rawdah, a soldier stood inside its minaret keeping watch.
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Bullet holes pepper outlying houses and the minaret of a mosque.
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An Iraqi flag fluttered at the top of the green minaret.
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What's left of the historic al-Hadba minaret in #Mosul. pic.twitter.
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The tower, like that of Seville Cathedral, replaced a long-ago minaret.
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The mosque and its minaret are pictured on Iraq's 63,000 dinar note.
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Its minaret has graced the Mosul skyline for more than 800 years.
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I asked a soldier why a Shia flag was flying from its minaret.
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The black Islamic State flag still flew from the mosque's minaret on Sunday.
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In April 2013 the Great Mosque's 11th Century minaret was reduced to rubble.
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Artillery punched a gaping hole in the minaret of the city's main mosque.
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Al-Nuri's minaret, which has stood since Crusader times, is reduced to a stump.
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The muezzin climbs the minaret at prayer time and sings, unamplified, over the Medina.
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A 500-year-old minaret pockmarked by gunfire is visible behind a police barricade.
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His black flag has been flying over its famous leaning minaret since June 2014.
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At the medieval Mehmindar Mosque, the minaret above the door is now a stump.
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Recent fighting has targeted the centuries-old al-Nuri Mosque, with its famous leaning minaret.
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Now, on the mosque's famed leaning minaret, the black and white ISIS flag still flutters.
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The Great Mosque of al-Nuri, with its leaning minaret, was in the Old City.
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Their black flag had been flying from al-Hadba (The Hunchback) minaret since June 733.
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Several big ones had already opened on the couscous façades, including in the centerpiece minaret.
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The Great Mosque Of Algiers is the tallest building in Africa, thanks to its minaret.
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Liebrand is optimistic his initiative's path will mirror the progress of the 2009 minaret ban.
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A pair of carriages make their way past the Mas'ud III Minaret, east of Ghazni, 1950.
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There is the wreckage of the 12th century al-Nuri mosque and its huge, leaning minaret.
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Protesters hoisted a saffron flag, associated with Hindu far-right groups, from the mosque's blackened minaret.
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In one, the only building still intact is a mosque, its minaret towering above the ruins.
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"The minaret campaign started as underdogs and was something the big parties didn't want," he said.
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Another minaret collapsed in the Sariyer district of the city, the municipality's disaster coordination center said.
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"Paisley and minaret motifs are Persian in origin and we have used these in our designs also."
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Troops have had the centuries-old mosque with its leaning minaret in their sights since last month.
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The call to prayer rang out from the mosque, whose minaret I could see towering over Kapana.
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In 2013, during the Syrian army's horrific onslaught of rebel-held Aleppo, the minaret crumbled into powder.
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By the time renowned mediaeval traveler and scholar Ibn Battuta visited two centuries later, the minaret was leaning.
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In one neighborhood, the minaret of a mosque had been shelled, while its dome had suffered great damage.
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For years, the militant group's black and white flag fluttered from the minaret, a symbol of ISIS' control.
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Some power cuts were reported, and a minaret in the town of Islamkoy was said to have collapsed.
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The minaret of a mosque, leaning precariously to one side, is one of the few structures still standing.
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Ahmed follows this border conflict through the eyes of a goatherd who lives in a Kansas mosque's minaret.
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A video on social media showed the minaret collapsing vertically, throwing up a pall of sand and dust.
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Ryan Dillon said Thursday from Baghdad, confirming Iraqi forces had seized the remains of an iconic mosque and minaret.
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The building, once a mosque, was converted to a Greek Orthodox Church in the 1920s, and its minaret dismantled.
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Viewed from close up, it is hard to see how the 16th-century Adliyeh mosque's minaret is still standing.
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Experts consider the minaret to be the last standing remains of Firozkoh, the lost capital of the Ghurid dynasty.
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The intricate detailing on the minaret can be seen peeking out over crumbling debris, but its top is gone.
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The group's notorious black flag has been flying from the top of the Al Hadba minaret since that summer.
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Medieval travelers wrote glowing descriptions of Mosul, especially the leaning minaret that local residents nicknamed Al Hudba, or the hunchback.
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He was standing by the Four-Legged Minaret, a 500-year-old landmark in the ancient city, calling for peace.
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By the time traveler Ibn Battuta visited two centuries later, the mosque's 150-foot (45-metre) minaret was already leaning.
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One of Islamic State's last acts was to blow up the historic al-Nuri mosque and its famous leaning minaret.
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I placed an electronic pin on every towering minaret in this image and identified each by the shadows they cast.
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The minaret — a tower attached to a mosque — is the tallest in the world, rising 869 feet into the air.
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Its minaret reaches some 60 stories high; a mix of exquisite Zellige tilework and traditional Moroccan design cover the building's exterior.
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The iconic Grand Al-Nuri Mosque in Mosul, Iraq, and its distinctive "hunchback" minaret, were destroyed during the Battle of Mosul.
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A mosque has appeared on the far corner of the plot with a minaret so tall and narrow it should topple.
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As a student, I spent long afternoons at the eighth-century Umayyad Mosque with its slender 11th-century minaret, a masterpiece.
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The minaret was later chosen to adorn Iraq's 10,000 dinar note, cementing its place as one of the country's best-known landmarks.
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Project MINARET intercepted electronic communications of a handful of U.S. citizens before passing them to other government law enforcement and intelligence organizations.
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But a battle in or near the mosque would put the building and its famed leaning minaret at risk, experts have said.
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The Hasan II Mosque is the largest mosque in Africa and has the tallest minaret in the world at 700 feet tall.
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They have spent three months clearing and sorting the stones and have no idea when or if the minaret will be rebuilt.
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For Mosul's people, the erasure of the mosque and minaret from their city's skyline only added to their growing ledger of losses.
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"The minaret was too high," said Beate Lausch-Bernreiter, an educational therapist who does tours of Deggendorf dressed up in medieval garb.
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A minaret—the first I had seen in Kurdish Syria—poked above a wall against which were stacked a bunch of car tires.
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"The Nuri Mosque and al-Hadba minaret are located in the Old City of Mosul where groundwater is a prevailing characteristic," he said.
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The Great Mosque of al-Nuri was one of the most famous mosques in the country, nicknamed "the humpback" because the minaret leaned.
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The minaret, several feet off the perpendicular and standing on humid soil, is particularly vulnerable as it has not been renovated since 1970.
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Cars came to rest at improbable angles and a once-beautiful golden-roofed mosque with a minaret askew lay teetering in the chaos.
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Using Google Earth, we labeled landmarks, like a minaret and a water tower, and kept track of the nearby hills and mountain ridge.
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His black flag had been flying on the 150-foot (45-metre) minaret since June 2014, after Islamic State fighters surged across Iraq.
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Some expressed sadness over the destruction of the 850-year-old Grand al-Nuri mosque and its leaning 150-foot (45-meter) minaret.
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The situation is especially puzzling given that the mosque and its minaret seem of greater importance to international media than to Moslawis themselves.
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The minaret was composed of seven bands of decorative brickwork in complex geometric patterns that have also been found in Iran and Central Asia.
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Islamic State had accused American planes of destroying the medieval Grand al-Nuri mosque and its famous leaning minaret in the northern Iraqi city.
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Cohen would be among the throngs streaming in and out of the porte-cochère entrance under the flashing lights of the yellow-domed minaret.
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Frankenthaler curiously tops the tower with an onion dome rather than the Renaissance lantern it now flaunts, evoking its original incarnation as a minaret.
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Even the Mosul mosque was to be destroyed in 2014 but the residents of the city linked their arms together to protect its beloved minaret.
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We climbed to the top of the minaret of the mosque inside Aleppo's ancient citadel, where you get an amazing view of the entire city.
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In fact, some of Murdoch's longstanding enemies have again attacked the "Tower of Voices," which they believe functions as a minaret or prayer-time sundial.
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The mosque's distinctive leaning minaret dominated the skyline of Mosul's Old City for nearly eight centuries, but the Islamic State blew it up last week.
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At the center of a circular platform rose a yellowish minaret, surrounded by squat houses with sloping walls, rounded parapets, and roofs topped by domes.
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Even the local imam gets involved, looking to Islam's great history of astronomy to justify offering the use of his mosque's minaret as a launchpad.
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The top section of a minaret had collapsed at the central mosque in Istanbul's Avcilar district, close to the Marmara Sea, CNN Turk footage showed.
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The offensive's prime target is the medieval al-Nuri mosque with its landmark leaning minaret, where Islamic State's black flag has been flying since mid-2014.
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It has a tower like a minaret, and a gate labelled "Jerico" in honour of the first city to be handed over to the Palestinian Authority.
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Nabeel Nouriddin, a historian and archaeologist specializing in Mosul and its Nineveh region, said the minaret has not been renovated since 1970, making it particularly vulnerable.
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The sound rises from Bay Ridge's Beit Al-Maqdis mosque, a white-and-green building whose stubby minaret barely crests the high walls of abutting warehouses.
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ISIS, through its news agency, said US warplanes were responsible for the loss late Wednesday of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri and its leaning minaret.
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The only spot of color in view is the blue tip of the minaret at the roundabout, dedicated to the prominent victim of a suicide bombing.
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Before the Islamic State took control of Mosul, Unesco had begun an effort to protect and rehabilitate the minaret, known as Al Hadba, or the hunchback.
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In 2012, Unesco identified the mosque's minaret for assessment and preservation, after fears that its teetering posture could lead to collapse if measures were not taken.
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Islamic State fighters blew up the Al Nuri Grand Mosque and its distinctive leaning minaret in Mosul on Wednesday, another strike to the city's cultural heritage.
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The United Nations' education organization UNESCO said the Mosul minaret and mosque "stood as a symbol of identity, resilience and belonging" and it deplored their destruction.
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The mosque — especially its distinctive leaning minaret, called al-Habda ("the hunchback"), now completely gone except for its base — has come to represent the entire city.
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The destruction of Mosul's cultural heritage has been well-documented, with UNESCO pledging to rebuild the Museum of Mosul, the Nabi Younnis Shrine, the Al Hadba Minaret.
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Islamic State fighters blew up Mosul's medieval mosque and its famed leaning minaret a week ago as U.S.-backed Iraqi forces started a push in its direction.
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At the Umayad Mosque, bullet-scarred walls are being refaced and the stones of the fallen minaret are piled ready to be rebuilt under a yellow crane.
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"I have to believe he got out," Mr. Firmansyah said of his son, standing at the edge of a destroyed minaret in the demolished neighborhood of Balaroa.
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The mosque's distinctive leaning minaret dominated the skyline of Mosul's Old City for nearly eight centuries, standing as a symbol of the city's deeply rooted cultural heritage.
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Soon the ruins of the mosque came into view: Its 12th-century minaret was severed, and its walls were shattered, but its green dome was somehow intact.
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The first year of the project will be devoted to clearing rubble from the site of the mosque and minaret and to completing architectural studies of the site.
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Much of the mosque and brickwork minaret was reduced to rubble, said a Reuters TV reporter who went to the site with the elite units that captured it.
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Elsewhere in the city, the Kalyan Minaret, part of a mosque complex that is covered with Uzbekistan's signature green-and-blue mosaics, was also spared by the Mongols.
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Damaging secrets are being broadcast from the minaret of a local mosque, accusations that can prove fatal in a city in which blasphemy has become a capital crime.
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The al-Nuri mosque's tilting minaret, nicknamed "the hunchback" and sometimes referred to as Iraq's Leaning Tower of Pisa, had graced Mosul's skyline for more than eight centuries.
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The mosque, known as "the hunchback" due to its distinctive leaning minaret, was built nearly a millennium ago, and carries symbolic weight in Iraq and the greater Middle East.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Here are key facts about Mosul's Grand al-Nuri Mosque and famous leaning minaret, blown up on Wednesday as Iraqi forces advanced on Islamic State's last stronghold.
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" The Great Mosque of al-Nuri was built in the 85033th century and known for its leaning minaret, which gave the city of Mosul its nickname of "the hunchback.
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Built in 2012, Yuanlong Relocation Village looked like an Asian Levittown: clean, straight streets of low-slung houses with pagoda roofs and minaret-shaped gateposts topped with crescent moons.
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Located south of the ancient Ark citadel, Po-i-Kalon includes the exquisite 12th-century Kalon Minaret, one of only two buildings in the city spared by Genghis Khan.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Today, the 12th-century Grand Al-Nuri Mosque in Mosul, Iraq, including its distinctive "hunchback" minaret, was destroyed during the Battle of Mosul.
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Last summer in Khiva, Uzbekistan, I came across a small group of Europeans sitting in the shadow of the great Islam-Hoja minaret, hoping to make it to Afghanistan.
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"This is the remains of the minaret, which was blown up by the terrorist gang," said one official from Iraq's counterterrorism service in a video released by the group.
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They had finished three — the Al Hadba minaret in Mosul, which was destroyed in the fight with the Islamic State; the ziggurat of Samarra; and the Turkish Restaurant building.
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"Savior" (1996) is a shopping cart turned into a tower, like an ad hoc watchtower or minaret or a homage to the homeless who carry their life's possessions with them.
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This past week, as fighting raged nearby, Iraqi soldiers took selfies in front of the stump of the minaret and posed at the spot where Mr. Baghdadi made his speech.
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"This is what we call 'The Waiting Generation,'" political analyst Oraib Rantawi told me in Amman, while the call to prayer blasted from the minaret of a mosque next door.
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State official Pallavi Mishra said Wednesday that three other people were injured when the 30-meter (100-foot) minaret fell on their home in northern Uttar Pradesh state on Tuesday night.
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From a rooftop adjacent to the minaret of a nearby mosque, you can see the last pocket of ISIS's resistance -- pinned with their backs against the river, some 50 meters away.
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Unesco is best known for designating World Heritage sites, more than 1,000 of them since 1972, including ones like Yosemite National Park in California and the Minaret of Jam in Afghanistan.
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The insurgents chose to blow it up rather than see their black flag taken down from its al-Hadba, or Hunchback, leaning minaret where it had been flying since June 2014.
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At the heart of their territory sits the medieval Grand al-Nuri Mosque and its famous leaning minaret, where Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared his caliphate in July 2014.
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ISIS has destroyed countless mosques and ancient buildings before, but its demolition of the al-Nuri mosque — and its famous tilting al-Hadba minaret — was a particularly painful blow for many Iraqis.
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Some fell at the hands of militants who demolished infrastructure as the Iraqi military moved in, including the iconic Al Nuri mosque and its leaning minaret, and some were casualties of coalition airstrikes.
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The iconic 12th century Al Hadba minaret is now just a stump, seen broken nearly to its base in footage released by Iraqi forces who entered the area where the mosque once stood.
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ALEPPO, SYRIA The eastern extreme of Girault's journey was booming, cosmopolitan Aleppo, where he made this daguerreotype of its ancient ramparts; poking out at top center is the minaret of the Great Mosque.
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With the same zeal they applied to ancient pagan churches, they blew up iconic mosques, including the city's leaning minaret of al-Nuri, which residents affectionately called "the hunchback", and the old university library.
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Instead, we followed another group of federal policemen into a half-finished building where they said we could see Al-Hadba, the leaning minaret of Mosul next to the Great Mosque of al-Nuri.
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Al Hudba was so firmly etched into the city's identity that in the early 20th century, when the Iraqi antiquities authority decided to renovate the Nuri complex, they left the minaret as it was.
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From the top of the minaret you can see China—not because it rises all the way to orbit, but because there is a lot of China to see right in front of you.
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The minaret of the Ziwani mosque, which is cleared of militants, has been partially destroyed, and the cross had been removed from the bell tower of Shamoon al-Safa church, a Reuters correspondent said.
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It lacks a dome and a minaret, which hold special religious symbolism, and the worshipers have no easy way to wash their hands, feet and heads before prayer, as called for in the Quran.
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But amid the magic, darkness still loomed: In Konjic, as I fantasized about putting a down payment on a lovely riverside cottage, I glimpsed the scorched stub of a bombed-out minaret behind it.
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Earlier this month, flash floods damaged the Minaret of Jam, a Unesco world heritage site, so security forces were clearing the area of insurgents while workers tried to prevent further damage to the structure.
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"Al Hadba minaret and Al Nuri Mosque in Mosul were among the most iconic sites in the city, and stood as a symbol of identity, resilience and belonging," Ms. Bokova said in a statement.
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"Responsibility of this devastation is laid firmly at the doorstep of ISIS," said Major-General Joseph Martin, the commander of coalition forces in Mosul, after the jihadists blew up a medieval minaret in the city.
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The militants last week destroyed the historic Grand al-Nuri Mosque and its leaning minaret from which their leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a caliphate spanning parts of Iraq and Syria three years ago.
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A helicopter fired rockets into the area and heavy gunfire and mortar blasts echoed as troops made forays in districts near the Nuri mosque, where Islamic State's black jihadist flag hangs from its leaning minaret.
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Its biggest project, funded with $50 million from the United Arab Emirates, is restoring the Grand al-Nuri Mosque, famous for its eight-century-old leaning minaret, which was blown up by Islamic State militants.
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"In the early morning, I climbed up to the roof of my house and was stunned to see the Hadba minaret had gone," Nashwan, a day-laborer who lives near the mosque, said by phone.
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"The Daesh terror gangs committed another historical crime by blowing up the al-Nuri mosque and its historical al-Hadba minaret," the ministry said in a statement, using an alternative name for ISIS, according to Reuters.
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Heavy fighting with machine guns, rocket propelled grenade launchers and mortars was heard by the Reuters TV crew coming from the area around the mosque, located in the old city and famous for its leaning minaret.
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In June, with international forces closing in on Mosul, the group blew up the 12th-century Great Mosque of al-Nuri and its extraordinary minaret, whose leaning, "humpback" silhouette has for centuries defined the city's skyline.
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In the 1960s, the NSA had launched Project Minaret, a program for monitoring, without a warrant, the communications of high-profile Americans like Martin Luther King Jr. and Muhammad Ali, as well as journalists and politicians.
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And to the people of Mosul, including many who have fled but dream of one day returning to their homeland, the destruction of the al-Nuri mosque and its iconic minaret is a deeply painful loss.
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ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - The remains of the medieval Umayyad Mosque's felled minaret lie in its once-elegant courtyard along with discarded mattresses, fragments of rockets and antique doors, but, after years of fighting, Aleppo's holiest monument endures.
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Samarra's Sunnis clamber up the helter-skelter of their malwiya, the towering minaret with which the Abbasid caliphs adorned their capital 1,200 years ago when they ruled the Islamic world from this little bend in the Tigris.
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Ever since, the militants' black flag has flown over the medieval brick walls, placing the mosque's famous leaning minaret at the heart of military and spiritual force that has taken its fight onto the streets of Europe.
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The militants are now besieged in the northwestern corner, which includes the historic Old City center, the medieval Grand al-Nuri Mosque, and its landmark leaning minaret where their black flag has been flying since June 2014.
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The collapse of the tower in Ghazni follows concern over the condition of the 900-year-old Minaret of Jam, in Ghor, which has been on the UNESCO List of World Heritage Properties in Danger since 2002.
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PATNA, India – Indian officials say strong winds, rain and lightning have killed at least 38 people this week, including four members of a family who were crushed when a tall minaret at a mosque collapsed on their home.
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The minaret and the covered markets that surrounded the mosque may have been destroyed in battles between the Syrian army and rebel fighters in 2012 and 2013, but despite suffering great damage, much of the mosque has survived.
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The militants are now besieged in the northwestern corner of Mosul which includes the historic Old City, the medieval Grand al-Nuri Mosque, and its landmark leaning minaret where their black flag has been flying since June 2014.
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ISIS burned books and bombed ancient sites, including the famed al-Nuri mosque and its leaning al-Hadba minaret that had graced the Mosul skyline for decades and engendered a sense of belonging for its native sons and daughters.
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We can't erase the memory of our Umayyad Mosque's bombed minaret, our Queiq River where bloated, tortured corpses were dumped by security forces and fished out by the victims' families; our scorched bazaars and ancient buildings reduced to rubble.
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But the spirit of the restaurant is still elsewhere, with pale sheets draped over the ceiling and peaked niches in the walls, painted with the ghostly backdrop of a minaret against a blue sky, as if they were windows.
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As reporters toured the mosque in the company of an army escort, a soldier climbed the hillock of rubble that was once the 11th-century minaret and replaced the flags of Islamist rebel factions with that of the Syrian state.
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The militants hung curtains across roadways to try to obscure the view of Iraqi army marksmen as they dashed from houses to pray in a tan-colored mosque where they also posted a sniper in the minaret, Abu Rami said.
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By nightfall Arab leaders were frantically trying to rally their supporters, mosques were broadcasting appeals from minaret loudspeakers, and a last-minute surge of participation seemed to materialize in some predominantly Arab towns, though that was not captured in exit polls.
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"While the mosque did not have a minaret or a dome that would have been visible by aerial surveillance, local residents said that dozens, if not hundreds, of people were gathering in the building at prayer times," the report says.
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MOSUL/BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - The leaning al-Hadba minaret that towered over Mosul for 850 years lay in ruins on Thursday, demolished by retreating Islamic State militants, but Iraq's prime minister said the act marked their final defeat in the city.
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"When Daesh targeted the mosque and minaret a few month ago, the people of Mosul formed a human chain to protect the site, proving once again that the protection of heritage cannot be delinked from the protection of human lives," she said.
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Artworks on view include giant faux replicas of dinosaur skeletons, a minaret hidden behind a curtain and angled like a canon toward the museum wall, and a piece that features a life-size train car and statues of beheaded forest animals. powerstationofart.com
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But it was on their own initiative, and to the apparent delight of the public, that when the adhan (call to prayer) was made from the mosque's minaret five times a day, the visiting Muslims would duly gather inside and perform their obligations.
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When I couldn't easily determine whether a particular structure was a mosque or a minaret, I referred to historical satellite imagery, available on Google Earth, to examine older images, taken from alternate camera angles or on clearer days when shadows were more distinct.
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But for many, Sunday's Eid celebrations were overshadowed by the destruction of their historic leaning minaret, blown up by the militants on Wednesday, and fears for thousands of civilians trapped in the Old City in western Mosul still under Islamic State control.
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Finally, Saks Afridi has some pristinely lovely photographs and a hanging minaret that anchor an elaborate story (told through different media platforms) of how alien creatures in wondrous vehicles came to the planet with good in one hand and evil in the other.
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The fort is one of dozens of unique historic sites in Afghanistan - ranging from the pre-Islamic Buddhist center in the Bamyan valley to the 12th century minaret of Jam in a remote area of Ghor province - in urgent need of protection.
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An event not for Moslawis (the people of Mosul) so much as regional, national, and foreign dignitaries — the UN representatives, Iraqi officials, and European diplomats sitting with plastic stools in front, as behind them looms the destroyed mosque with its missing minaret.
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PARIS/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates will finance a $50.4 million project to rebuild Mosul's Grand al-Nuri Mosque, famous for its eight-century-old leaning minaret, that was blown up by Islamic State militants last year, the United Nations said on Monday.
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"The return of al-Nuri Mosque and al-Hadba minaret to the fold of the nation marks the end of the Daesh state of falsehood," Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said in a statement, referring to the ultra-hardline Sunni group by an Arabic acronym.
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Reconstruction and restoration of the mosque and al-Hadba minaret will be in partnership with the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO, Iraq's culture ministry and the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), Dubai's media office said in a Twitter post.
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As had been the case on Friday mornings for the past few weeks, even at such an early hour, the players who passed the white minaret at the center's entrance on their way toward its state-of-the-art soccer fields were not the first to arrive.
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Beams of pinkish light bathed the majestic 16th century Catedral de Santa Maria de la Sede, the world's largest Gothic church, built on the site of the 12th-century Almohad mosque with its minaret, La Giralda, towering beside it, symbol of the interlocked cultures of Spain.
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Bakst toyed with the brilliant contrasts of color in classic Russian embroideries, as well as the sarafan, a traditional folk dress whose shape he translated into tunics worn over trousers — a silhouette that, in 1912, became the wire-hemmed "lampshade" or "minaret" skirt in Poiret's hands.
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Local historians and campaigners successfully lobbied Uzbekistan's government to scrap plans to demolish a 20153-year-old minaret in the city of Andijan A network of tunnels underneath Clapham South tube station were opened for public visits by Transport for London (TfL) and the London Transport Museum.
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It was always an unsettling experience to come across the remains of a village, possibly a pile of stones amid a forest or a solitary minaret in the middle a modern Israeli suburb, knowing already something of its charged history and its continuing significance to the diaspora.
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IS's black flag has been flying over its landmark leaning minaret since June 2014, when the Iraqi army fled in the face of the militants, giving them their biggest prize, a city at least four times bigger than any other they came to control in both Iraq and neighboring Syria.
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Both the leaning minaret of Al-Hadba , part of the 12th century Grand al-Nuri Mosque, where in 2014 Islamic State's Abu Bakr al Baghdadi declared a caliphate, and the ancient tomb of what is believed to be the Prophet Jonah were destroyed in the military campaign to retake the city.
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Mr. Adams was intercepted and persuaded to leave Afghanistan a few miles from the minaret of Jam, a fabled 12th-century structure of exquisite brickwork and a blue-tile top soaring over 200 feet on the banks of the Hari River and circled by high mountains in central Ghor province.
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The destruction of the mosque and minaret — which has dominated Mosul's skyline for centuries and is pictured on Iraq's 10,000 dinar bank note — is another blow to the city's rich cultural heritage and its plethora of ancient sites that have been damaged or destroyed during three years of Islamic State rule.
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Meanwhile, the Blackpool Piers in the United Kingdom are being damaged by rising sea levels attributed to climate change, and the al-Hadba' Minaret in Mosul, Iraq; the Souk in Aleppo, Syria; the Old City of Ta'izz in Yemen; and the Sukur Cultural Landscape in Nigeria, are all in tumultuous conflict zones.
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At the Hassan Tower, a 12th century uncompleted red sandstone minaret and mosque in the Moroccan capital on North Africa's western Atlantic coast, Pope Francis arrived side by side with King Mohammed VI — the pope waving in a white popemobile, the king out of the retractable roof of a black antique Mercedes.
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BAGHDAD — As the bloody battle to retake Mosul from the Islamic State ground on for months, with losses in lives and infrastructure piling up, soldiers and civilians kept in their minds an image of what victory would look like: capturing the historic, and symbolic, Al Nuri Grand Mosque and its distinctive leaning minaret.
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