The call to prayer was raised again on Friday in the Al-Nuri mosque, famous for its minaret known as "Al-Hadba" in the city of Mosul in the northern province of Nineveh, and the mosque from which the leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, announced what he called the "caliphate state" in 2014.
Reconstruction work is continuing in the mosque under the supervision of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization "UNESCO" after three years of its destruction during the battles of the Iraqi forces backed by the international coalition against the organization that was controlling Mosul at the time.
On June 22, 2017, Iraq announced that ISIS had bombed the Al-Nuri Mosque and Manarat al-Hadba when Iraqi forces were tens of meters away from it during its war to retake the city from ISIS's grip.
Al-Nouri Mosque gained international fame in the summer of 2014 when it turned its attention to it after Al-Baghdadi ascended his pulpit and declared his caliphate.
And Al-Nuri Mosque is one of the historic mosques of Iraq and is located on the right coast of Mosul, and its construction dates back to the founder of the Zangid state and the Islamic leader Nur ad-Din Zangi, in the year 568 AH (1172 AD).