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Al-Shaheed was constructed on Baghdad's al-Rusafa side, and this monument is one of three monuments that were built to remember Iraq's pain and suffering as a consequence of the eight-year war. The first of these structures was The Monument to the Unknown Soldier (1982); followed by Al-Shaheed (1983) and finally the Victory Arch (1989). The ...
The 1982 Monument to the Unknown Soldier was not the first of such monuments to be constructed in Baghdad. In 1959, an arched monument to the Unknown Soldier was erected in Baghdad's Firdos Square. It was designed by Iraqi architect, Rifat Chadirji, and was a modern adaption of the arch of Ctesiphon in the ancient capital of the Parthian Empire ...
Ismail Fatah Al-Turk ("Ismail Fatah") (1934 or 1938–2004) was an Iraqi painter and sculptor born in Basra, Iraq, noted for his abstract art, monumental sculpture, and public works and as part of the Baghdad Modern Art Group, which fostered a sense of national identity. [1] His monument, al-Shaheed Monument is the most iconic public monument ...
10 Iraq. 11 Japan. 12 Jordan. 13 Lebanon. 14 Romania. 15 Turkey. ... This is a list of martyrs' monuments and memorials sorted by country: Algeria. Maqam Echahid ...
The monument features the names of 551 Iraqi and foreign journalists, in alphabetical order under the year in which they were killed, set on massive metal plates. Among guardians of truth ...
Monastery of the Martyrs Mar Behnam and Marth Sarah (Syriac: ܕܝܪܐ ܕܡܪܝ ܒܗܢܡ ܘܡܪܬ ܣܪܐ, Arabic: دير مار بهنام, Mar Behnam Monastery), is a Syriac Catholic monastery in northern Iraq in the village Khidr Ilyas close to the town of Beth Khdeda. [1]
A rendering prepared by PG Memorials, of Vermont, shows the 19,000 pound black granite Iraq and Afghanistan War Memorial to be unveiled at Veterans Memorial Park in Port St. Lucie on April 20 at noon.
Ancient rock carvings that are believed to be more than 2,700 years old have been unearthed by a team of archaeologists in Iraq's northern city of Mosul.