CORDOBA (AFP) - The Spanish city of Cordoba boasts that different faiths have long co-existed there, but locals are now squabbling over its star tourist attraction: a cathedral that was once a mosque.

he bishop of an ancient cathedral objects to signs that reflect its origin as a mosque, in the latest chapter in the region’s contested religious legacy.

In 2013, “an organization called the ‘Platform for the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba’ secured more than 350,000 names for a petition demanding the seizure of the cathedral, a push heavily ...

Cordoba, Spain, Nov 5, 2010 / 19:58 pm. Bishop Demetrio Fernandez of Cordoba, Spain has asked that the city’s historic cathedral be referred to as a Catholic church and not as a “mosque,” in ...

In 1998, its name was changed in tourist brochures to the “Cathedral (former Mosque)” of Córdoba. In 2010 the Catholic Church went even further, calling it “Córdoba Cathedral” and ...

MADRID (AP) — A regional government in southern Spain has filed a complaint with Roman Catholic Church authorities over what it believes are church moves in recent years to blot out the Islam… ...

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Córdoba's stunning mosque-cathedral showcases Spain's Muslim heritage. Christian forces captured the Umayyad capital in 1236, but left its glorious house of worship largely untouched when ...

Historic Center of Cordoba, Spain. Elijah-Lovkoff/Getty Images. Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba . Pais calls a guided tour of the Mosque-Cathedra of Córdoba an “essential” activity. “Imagine ...

MADRID (AP) — Catholic Church authorities in the southern Spanish city of Cordoba have agreed to restore the Islamic reference in the name of the city’s famed mosque-cathedral and stop ...