This slide represents the damage caused by environment and mankind

1. Heritage damage
“Raise your voice to
voice out”

2. TheTajMahal’s gates
suffered minordamages in
an overnightthunderstorm
inAgra on Wednesday.
Winds blowing at 130km/h
brought
down pillars of the royal and
southern gates of the Taj, a Mughal-
era monumentwhich has been
declared as oneof the Seven Wonders
of the World and a UNESCOWorld
Heritage Site.

3. In 2014,media reported
destructionofmultiple,
chiefly Shiite,mosquesand
shrines throughoutIraqbyISIL.[
Among them wereAl-Qubba
Husseiniya Mosquein Mosul,
JawadHusseiniya Mosqueand
Saadbin Aqeel Husseiniya
Shrine
in Tal
Afar,SunniAhmed al-
RifaiShrine andtomb
in MahlabiyaDistrict
andtheso-called Tomb
ofthe Girl (Qabral-
Bint)in Mosul. The
Tombofthe Girl,
reputedtohonoura
girl whodied ofa
brokenheart,was
actuallybelieved to be
the tombofmedieval
scholarAli ibn al-Athir

4. In June2014,it wasreportedthatISIL
elements hadbeen instructedtodestroy
all churchesin Mosul. Since then,most
churcheswithin thecity havebeen
destroyed.
TheVirgin Mary
Churchwasdestroyed
withseveral improvised
explosivedevices in July
2014.DairMarElia, the
oldestmonasteryin Iraq,
wasdemolished
sometime between late
AugustandSeptember
2014.The destruction
wentunreporteduntil
January2016.

5. In May2014,ISILmembers
smasheda 3,000-year-oldneo-
AssyrianstatuefromTel Ajaja.
Laterreportsindicatedthatover
40%of theartifactsatTel Ajaja
(Saddikanni)werelootedbyISIS.]
Partsofthe TalAfar
Citadel wereblown
upbyISIL in
December2014,
causing extensive
damage.
In January2015,ISIL
reportedly
destroyedlarge
partsof
the Nineveh
Wall in al-Tahrir
neighborhoodof
Mosul.

6. DuringFebruary–March1944,the
Sovietconductedthe expulsionof
the ChechensandIngush from
theNorthCaucasusasa partof
theSovietforcedsettlement
programofthenon-Russianethnic
minorities.
The operationwas
resulted in the
deportationof
496,000Chechens andI
ngush populations,and
the deathofaround
quarterofthem. It was
alsoaccompaniedby
the destructionoflocal
culturalandsocietal
heritages;namesof
thesenationswere
erasedfromthe books
andrecords.

7. The ChurchofKazanIconin
YakimankaDistrictofMoscow,
desecratedin the1930sand
graduallyreducedintoastorage
barn,was demolished duringa1972
campaign
This 1890sbuilding in
Moscow was
demolishedin
September2008.The
propertydeveloper
wasfined$1,500.

8. Althoughthe bombedsitewas
clearedofmuch ofthe rubbleandall
ofthe remaining decorative
sculpture,rebuilding wasrepeatedly
postponedby
successive post-War
governments, in favour
ofreconstruction
projectsthatwere
deemed tobemore
pressing.

9. TheChurchofSt.Lambertusin Immerath
wasdemolishedon 9January2018aspartof
the demolitionofthe entirevillage tomake
wayforanexpansionoftheGarzweiler
surfacemine.
The churchhadbeen
addedtothe listof heritage
monumentsin Erkelenzon
14May 1985.

10. In thelate12thcentury,SultanAl-Aziz
Uthmandemolishedpartofthe Pyramid
ofMenkaure.
TheLighthouseof Alexandria,one of
theSeven WondersoftheAncient World,
wasdamagedbyearthquakesin the10th
and14th
centuries, beforebeing
demolished[citation
needed]in 1480to
makewayfor
the CitadelofQaitbay.
Somestonesfromthe
lighthousewereused in
the constructionofthe
citadel,andsomeother
remainshavesurvived
underwater.

11. Throughthecourseofthe Bosnian
War,countlessofcultural
heritagesbelonging todifferent
religious groupsweredestroyed.
Muslim heritagesites sufferedthe
most,with277 mosquesand
several otherreligious
facilities, schoolsand
institutionsweredestroyed
bythe authoritiesof
theRepublicofSrpskaas a
partofthe ethnic cleansing
campaignagainstthelocal
Muslim populations.