Cordoba is most known for her patios. These patios in Cordoba vary from smaller courtyards in private residences, to large ...

Marvelous mosque The new beginning decreed by Ferdinand III in 1236 was not the first transformation of the site at the foot of the Sierra Morena in southern Spain. Legend has it that when Romans ...

Times reader “lachnowicz” captured this stunning view inside Great Mosque of Córdoba in Spain. One of the largest sacred Islamic buildings in the world, the mosque is slightly smaller than St ...

Deep in the heart of Catholic Spain there has been a dispute that has lasted for centuries over a Mosque, the Great Mosque, or for others the great Cathedral of Cordoba, which carries on to this ...

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 the ...

The Mezquita, or Great Mosque of Córdoba, was for centuries a symbol of diversity and tolerance in the southern Spanish city and has long been one of Europe's most admired historical monuments.

However, Cordoba's Mosque-Cathedral has become a focal point for the increasingly fierce dispute over how Spain's Islamic past should inform its present and future.