An annotated register of 91 Islamic historical sites of Old Mosul that were destroyed or severely damaged during the years of occupation (2014–2017) and the battle to retake the city. The map below plots all 91 sites — click any marker to read its name and type.
About this register
The 91 sites mapped above include mosques (34), shrines (14), churches (14), mosques-and-shrines (9), historic houses (3), public buildings (6 — including the Mosul Museum and the Mosul Central Library), madrasas (2), the Al-Hadbaa minaret of the Al-Nuri Mosque, the Sharif Khan palace at Tarbisu, archaeological sites and a cemetery. Each one is a site of consequence in Mosul’s long history; their destruction is the subject of the essay Space, Time and People: How the destruction of Mosul’s heritage is reshaping its people’s future by Omar Mohammed.
Sources. Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, A Systematic Assessment of Daesh-Inflicted Damages on Iraqi Heritage (2017); Mosul Eye fieldwork, 2014–present; interviews with Mosuli historians, archivists, and members of the Jalili family; private documentation and archival records. Map tiles by OpenStreetMap contributors.
If you have additional documentation — photographs, blueprints, family papers — relating to any site on this list, please write to contact@mosul-eye.org. We are building the record together.