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Antiquity

its value. Sheikh al-Ameri the mosque to protect it from mosque's walls and minaret
recalls how they began a vandalism. The mosque’s walls carry numerous Islamic
cleaning campaign that was and minaret are still in very poor decorations and inscriptions
participated in by numerous condition and require urgent that combine geometric,
residents of the area, which repair and reconstruction, but vegetal, and Kufic scripts,
began by removing all the there is hope that these will all of which were inspired by
inappropriate items stored be completed quickly now the local Iraqi elements that were
inside the mosque. He told us matter has been taken to the common before the Mongol
how the first step in restoring offices of the President and the invasion of Iraq. The most
the holiness of this site was to Prime Minister. wonderful of these formations is
hold Friday prayers inside the A well was discovered in 2009, located in the middle of the hull
holy shrine of the prophet, and situated south of the minaret of the Minaret and consists of
with blessings from the prayer and connected with the old rare Kufic writing on overlapping
they were able to highlight the wall of the mosque. A second triangles that reads ‘I love
sanctity of the site. section was discovered using Muhammad and Ali’.
The situation was then radar technology, owing to the
discussed in the offices of difficulty of excavating a site By: Sabah al-Taliqani
the religious authorities now underneath a residential
after Sayyid Riyadh al- area.
Hakim, in collaboration with In regards to the details of the
an archaeologist from the mosque, Safi stated that the
University of Kufa, Dr. Khalid
al-Musawi, first visited the
site in 2003 and clarified the
historical value of the matter. Dr.
“
al-Musawi mapped the plans
and dimensions of the site and
explained all the acoustic and
visual aspects of the mosque.
A fence has been put up around

The mosque's walls
and minaret carry

numerous Islamic

decorations and
inscriptions that
combine geometric,

vegetal, and Kufic

scripts.

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