page_title: Sunni Endowment Office
section_title: Sunni Endowment
hierarchical_section_title: Sunni Endowment Office / Sunni Endowment
caption_attribution_description: Al-Nuri Mosque (Mosul)
context_page_description: The Sunni Endowment Office is an Iraqi administration created by the Iraqi Governing Council after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. It was created from the dissolution of the Ministry of Awqaf and religious Affairs in former Baath rule, separating from it the religious endowments of Shi'ites and non-Islamic religions.
  Its function is the administration of the mosques and other endowments of Sunnis in Iraq.
context_section_description: After the separation of the holy places of shiite muslims and of other religions, the Sunni Endowment Office is responsible only for Sunni mosques and religious endowments. The office has also a new section for cultural moderation.
  On 22 October 2003, the Iraqi Governing Council appointed sheikh Adnan al-Dulaimi, as President of the Sunni Waqf Office.
  On July 2005, the Iraqi Islamic Party, only Sunni party to participate in the new Iraqi General Assembly, appointed his deputy Ahmad Abd al-Ghafur al-Samarrai. 
  In the following years, as soon as the Iraqi insurgency was defeated, also the mosques administrated by the insurgents were transferred by the Iraqi Army to the Diwan.
  On November 2013, during a new escalation of Sunni insurgency, the Shiite Premier Nuri al-Maliki suspended the President of Sunni Waqf Office Samarrai, and appointed his deputy sheikh Mahmud al-Sumaydai, considered a more moderate Muslim.
  On June 2015, the new Iraqi Premier Haider al-Abadi, head of a government of broad coalition, appointed sheikh Abd al-Latif al-Humaym, as President of the Sunni Endowment Office, despite the veto of the Fiqh Council of Sunni ulema, of islamist tendency, and the opposition of the Sunni Iraqi Fatwa Council, more linked to the Popular Mobilization Forces and to the Shiite parties.
  As soon as the Iraqi Army gained new areas to the Daesh, the President of the Diwan, Humaym, cooperated to rebuild the places destroyed by the war, as the town of Ramadi after its liberation in 2016, and the Great Mosque of al-Nuri of Mosul in 2018
caption: The minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, 2013. The mosque has been destroyed in 2017. Its reconstruction by the Sunni Endowment Diwan is planned within the next five years
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