Al-Nabi Yunus Mosque

Mosque in Nineveh, Mosul.

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Al-Nabi Yunus Mosque, also known as the Mosque of the Prophet Jonah, and the Shrine of Nabi Yunis, was a historic Sunni congregational mosque and shrine, partially destroyed in 2014, that was located in Mosul, in the Nineveh Governorate of Iraq. It contained a tomb believed to be that of the Abrahamic prophet Jonah, known as Yunus by Muslims. After the liberation of Mosul, additional excavations revealed the ruins of a Neo-Assyrian palace beneath the mosque.

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36.34795, 43.15954 · Mosul

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Nineveh: Photo by Fredarch. · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons
Mosul Museum: Levi Clancy · CC0 · Commons
Great Mosque of al-Nuri: Ennolenze · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons
Bash Tapia Castle: Eng Omer Akram · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons
Dair Mar Elia: Doug · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons
Tepe Gawra: Near_East_topographic_map-blank.svg : Sémhur derivative work: Zunkir ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons