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List of 100 endangered cultural sites

View the list of all 100 sites listed as most endangered by the World Monuments Foundation.
/ Source: msnbc.com

Below is the 2006 list of 100 most endangered sites compiled by the World Monuments Fund.

AFGHANISTAN
Haji Piyada Mosque, Balkh

ANTARCTICA
Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Expedition Hut, Antarctica

AUSTRALIA
Dampier Rock Art Complex, Dampier, Burrup Peninsula

BANGLADESH
Sonargaon-Panam City, Sonargaon

BOSNIA/HERZEGOVINA
Mehmed-Pasha Sokolovic Bridge, Visegrad

BRAZIL
Convent of San Francisco and Historic Olinda, Olinda, Pernambuco

CAMEROON
Bafut Palace, Bafut

CAPE VERDE
Tarrafal Concentration Camp, Tarrafal

CHILE
Tulor Village, Antofagasta
Cerros Pintados, Tarapaca

CHINA
Cockcrow Post Town, Cockcrow Post, Huailai
Lu Mansion, Dong Yang
Qikou Town, Shanxi Province
Stone Towers of Southwest China, Various
Tianshui Traditional Houses, Tianshui, Qincheng, Gansu
Tuanshan Historical Village, Yunnan Province

CROATIA
Novi Dvori Castle, Zapresic
Saint Blaise Church, Dubrovnik

CUBA
Finca Vigia (Hemingway’s House)
San Francisco de Paula

EGYPT
Sabil Ruqayya Dudu, Cairo
Tarabay al-Sharify, Cairo
West Bank, Luxor

EL SALVADOR
San Miguel Arcangel & Santa Cruz de Roma, Panchimalco & Huizucar

ERITREA
Asmara Historic City Center and Theater, Asmara
Kidane-Mehret Church, Senafe
Massawa Historic Town, Massawa

FINLAND
Helsinki-Malmi Airport, Helsinki

GEORGIA
Jvari Monastery, Mtshekta

GREECE
Helike Archaeological Site, Rizomylos & Eliki, Achaia

GUATEMALA
Naranjo, El Peten

INDIA
Dalhousie Square, Calcutta
Dhangkar Gompa, Himachal Pradesh
Guru Lhakhang and Sumda Chung Temples, Sumda Chung
Watson’s Hotel, Mumbai

INDONESIA
Omo Hada, Nias Island

IRAN
Bam, Bam

IRAQ
Cultural Heritage Sites, Countrywide

IRELAND
Wonderful Barn, Kildare

ITALY
Academy of Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli
Cimitero Acattolico, Rome
Civita di Bagnoregio, Bagnoregio
Murgia dei Trulli, Murgia dei Trulli
Portici Royal Palace, Naples
Santa Maria in Stelle Hypogeum, Verona
Temple of Portunus, Rome

KENYA
Mtwapa Heritage Site, Kilifi, Mtwapa

LAOS
Chom Phet Cultural Landscape, Luang Prabang

LATVIA
Riga Cathedral, Riga

LEBANON
Chehabi Citadel, Hasbaya
International Fairground at Tripoli, Tripoli

MACEDONIA
Treskavec Monastery and Church, Treskavec

MAURITANIA
Chinguetti Mosque, Chinguetti

MEXICO
Chalcatzingo, Morelos
Mexico City Historic Center, Mexico City
Pimeria Alta Missions, Sonora
San Juan Bautista Cuauhtinchan, Puebla
San Nicolas Obispo, Morelia, Michoacan

NEPAL
Patan Royal Palace Complex, Patan

NIGERIA
Benin City Earthworks, Edo State

NORWAY
Sandviken Bay, Bergen

PAKISTAN
Mian Nasir Mohamad Graveyard, Dadu District
Thatta Monuments, Thatta

PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES
Tell Balatah (Shechem or Ancient Nablus), Nablus, West Bank

PANAMA
Panama Canal Area

PERU
Cajamarquilla, Lima
Presbitero Maestro Cemetery, Lima
Quinta Heeren, Lima
Revash Funerary Complex, Santo Tomas de Quillay
Tucume Archaeological Site, Lambayeque

POLAND
Jerusalem Hospital of the Teutonic Order, Malborka
Mausoleum of Karol Scheibler, Lodz

PORTUGAL
Teatro Capitolio, Lisbon

ROMANIA
Oradea Fortress, Oradea

RUSSIA
Melnikov’s House Studio, Moscow
Narkomfin Building, Moscow
Semenovskoe-Otrada, Moscow Region

SAMOA
Pulemelei Mound, Palauli, Letolo Plantation

SERBIA/MONTENEGRO
Prizren Historic Center, Prizren
Subotica Synagogue, Subotica

SIERRE LEONE
Old Fourah Bay College, Freetown

SLOVAKIA
Lednicke-Rovne Historical Park, Lednicke-Rovne

SOUTH AFRICA
Richtersveld Cultural Landscape, Northern Cape Province

SPAIN
Segovia Aqueduct, Segovia

SUDAN
Suakin, Suakin Island

SYRIA
Amrit Archaeological Site, Amrit
Shayzar Castle, Shayzar
Tell Mozan (Ancient Urkesh)

TURKEY
Aphrodisias, Aphrodisias
Little Hagia Sophia, Istanbul

UNITED KINGDOM
Saint Mary’s Stow Church, Stow, Lincolnshire
Saint Vincent’s Street Church, Glasgow, Scotland

UNITED STATES
2 Columbus Circle, New York
Bluegrass Cultural Landscape of Kentucky
Cyclorama Center, Gettysburg, Penn.
Dutch Reformed Church, Newbergh, N.Y.
Ellis Island Baggage and Dormitory Building, New York
Ennis Brown House, Los Angeles, Calif.
Hanging Flume, Montrose County, Colo.
Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, New Lebanon, N.Y.

VENEZUELA
La Guaira Historic City, Vargas