Some nice pictures of old Mogadishu

[Voltage]

This city had a lot of historical character. I wonder how that will be preserved during redevelopment.

Flying in from the Coast at Hamarweyne (old town Mogadishu)



Abdulaziz Mosque (Somalia's oldest mosque)



Ceelgaab souk (Somalia's largest flea market)



Sayyid Mohamed Abdille Hassan statue (Mad Mullah)



A Mogadishu Swahili palace



Mogadishu Stadium



Old Mogadishu lighthouse



Old Arba Rukun Mosque and Italian Arch



Mogadishu Old Fort (Omani era)



Mosque of Islamic Solidarity (Masjidka Isbahaysiga Islaamka)



The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Daljirka Dahsoon)

[Nabeela]

Nice pictures, it's hard to believe Xamar was beautiful once upon a time, too bad it's all destroyed..

[qoraxeey]

Mashallah great pics .. ine adeer


loves it

[zingii]

Maybe something better is on the way.

[SultanOrder]

so sad that is gone even our legacy is being wiped out by the current fighting

here is the old mosque
Before:


Now:

[MrSinister]

why are all the nice pictures of xamar posted around October 21?

[Voltage]

Good grief, is that really old Abdulaziiz Mosque? No amount of reconstruction can replace the lost heritage. I wonder what else can be salvaged?

[FAH1223]

Somalis

[LiquidHYDROGEN]

What was once built can be rebuilt again.


But hot-damn, the city was happening back then.

[AbdiWahab252]

Voltage,

It is. That was my photo that PO posted. It got focked up. The tomb of the unknown soldier is intact. The Arc De Triumphe is battered. Sayiidka is gone. The Isbaheysiga MAsjid is intact and looks great.

[barakaboy10]

there's nothing to be preserved. the city is completely destroyed and no matter what, it will never come back to its pre-war beauty.

all i can say is, o Allah, how damn are we!!!???

[Voltage]

Where there is a will there is a way.

[SultanOrder]

somalis are so melo dramatic

Why more pertinent examples of reconstructrion from total destruction can you get than from Hiroshima and Nagasaki that saw a total destruction in a matter of mins.



to this in a matter of years



People don't understand how expensive war is, and how much energy and wealth it consumes to never return again.

[Based]

somalis are so melo dramatic

Why more pertinent examples of reconstructrion from total destruction can you get than from Hiroshima and Nagasaki that saw a total destruction in a matter of mins.



to this in a matter of years



People don't understand how expensive war is, and how much energy and wealth it consumes to never return again.

The Japs went from a feudal society to full scale industrialization in a generation, something that took Europe centuries.

Somalis are an African tribal society whose main achievement for the past millenia has been herding camels, who managed to turn one of the most progressive and modern African states into a cesspool of filth, poverty, and unimaginable suffering in two decades.

I feel depressed