Mosul's landmarks rise again after IS destruction
The famous leaning al-Hadba minaret was destroyed in the battle to liberate Mosul in 2017
The project, organised and funded by Unesco, began a year after IS was defeated and driven out of the city, in northern Iraq, in 2017.
Unesco's director-general Audrey Azoulay is attending a ceremony on Wednesday to mark the reopening.
Local artisans, residents and representatives of all of Mosul's religious communities will also be there.
In 2014, IS occupied Mosul, which for centuries was seen as a symbol of tolerance and co-existence between different religious and ethnic communities in Iraq.
The group imposed its extreme ideology on the city, targeting minorities and killing opponents.
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