Nineveh Governor Mansour Marid announced starting the renovation of the largest church of the Christian community in the Nineveh Plain after it was destroyed while the area was in the grip of ISIS.
"A French company expressed its readiness to reconstruct the Tahra church in Al-Hamdaniya District, 40 km east of Mosul," said Marid.
"The French company will start the renovation of the church within a period of no more than six months," he added, expressing readiness to build more than one church in Mosul during the upcoming months.