MONITORING LEANING OF ALHADBA MINARET
MUTHANNA JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (MJET)
Research Article:
Dr. Rasheed Saleem Abed
Remote Sensing Centre, University of Mosul \ Iraq
E-mail addresses: mosul_5@yahoo.com
ABSTRACT
Alhadba minaret in mosul is one of the oldest islamic monuments with its surprising
curvature, height and old age of over 800 years. During the past 50 years there was a
considerable amount of leaning in the minaret due to various natural and human causes. The
amount of leaning was generally increasing but there was no unified or fixed control that is
referenced from various monitoring groups. This paper describes the effort to design and
implement a monitoring system that can be referred in the future. Fixed control points and
targets have been worked. Samples of monitoring results are presented. These measurements
compose a complementary part of the data collection effort required for a major preservation
project that is proposed to be conducted in the future.