Great news from fellow restorers. UNESCO has completed the restoration of Mosul's cultural heritage sites damaged by ISIL.
Al Sa'a Monastery, founded in 1870 after the first papal mission sent to Mesopotamia, received new bells as part of extensive work to bring it back to life. The Dominican institution has historically served a variety of functions, housing a church, schools, seminary, hospital and more.
The monastery was home to an archive of ancient religious manuscripts that was narrowly saved shortly before the building was turned into an ISIL prison and smuggled out of the city. The monastery's priest - Najib Michael, now Chaldean Archbishop of Mosul - and his team, members of the community, managed to do so.
On the left: Al Sa'a Monastery under restoration. On the right: after the work is completed.