La Mezquita de Córdoba

After the windmill adventure, we found ourselves in Córdoba.  This city!  There were lots of beautiful things to be seen.  But this post will focus on the mosque/cathedral.

After the Christians reconquered the Iberian Penninsula from the Muslims, all of the mosques were either destroyed or turned into cathedrals.  The mosque in Córdoba is no different- as tragic as that is. They built a cathedral inside the mosque. So what once was a mosque is now a cathedral.  It is definitely a clash of the two religions.

All the columns were taken from old Roman buildings here in Spain.

The Cathedral part.

Interesting to see Catholic images in a building that is structurally and architecturally Muslim.