some of them very exquisite in proportion.” Roberts’s vibrant 1849 painting shows the mihrab in the background. Bridgeman/ACI One of the mosque’s most iconic features is its massive ...

WITH its Moorish arches and golden mihrab, the mosque-cathedral of Córdoba is one of the top tourist destinations in Spain. Built in the eighth century, when Muslim Spain was part of a caliphate ...

A mosque had been built there on the site of an earlier Visigoth church from the eighth century when Cordoba was held by Islamic Umayyad rulers. Fernando converted it into a cathedral when he ...

It is just a two hour train ride away from Madrid.” This amazing building known as the Mezquita-Catedral de Córdoba (Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba) symbolises the history of this city and the many ...

After the conquest of Cordoba by Ferdinand III in 1236, the mosque was consecrated as a Cathedral. The most important part of the structure for Muslim worship is the mihrab, the recess in the ...

CÓRDOBA, Spain The great mosque of Córdoba was begun by the Muslim caliphs in the eighth century, its forest of pillars and red-and-white striped arches meant to convey a powerful sense of ...