A few nice christian travel sites images I found:
La Mezquita (the Mosque)
Image by Narisa
Cordoba, Spain
December 2008
We took a train from Sevilla to Cordoba for a day.
The highlight of Cordoba is La Mezquita, or The Great Mosque of Cordoba. On this site, there’s been a Roman temple, Christian Visigoth church (600 AD), Islamic mosque, and a Roman Catholic cathedral of early Baroque style.
Learn more about this architectural gem and world heritage site: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Mosque_of_Cordoba
Cordoba (Cordova) was medieval Europe’s center of learning and culture, and rivaled Baghdad and Constantinople in population. (~ 950 AD)
La Mezquita (the Mosque)
Image by Narisa
Cordoba, Spain
December 2008
We took a train from Sevilla to Cordoba for a day.
The highlight of Cordoba is La Mezquita, or The Great Mosque of Cordoba. On this site, there’s been a Roman temple, Christian Visigoth church (600 AD), Islamic mosque, and a Roman Catholic cathedral of early Baroque style.
Learn more about this architectural gem and world heritage site: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Mosque_of_Cordoba
Cordoba (Cordova) was medieval Europe’s center of learning and culture, and rivaled Baghdad and Constantinople in population. (~ 950 AD)
mezquita arches
Image by shapeshift
The Mezquita is a 10th century Moorish Islamic house of prayer. The site is older than the building, having been host to a Roman pagan temple, the cathedral church of St Vincent of Saragossa built by the Catholic bishops under Visigothic rule, and finally the Mezquita itself. It was the most magnificent of the more than 1,000 mosques in the city, and was at one time the second largest mosque in the Muslim world. Within is a Renaissance cathedral, built by the Christian conquerors in the early 13th century. Cordoba, Spain.
You can watch this great documentary:
When the Moors Ruled in Spain
for the architecture and cultural history of the Moors, the Alhambra in Granada, and the ancient cities of Toledo and Cordoba.