Mezquita de Cordoba: Stunning architectural masterpiece in Cordoba (Part – 1)

By Asad Russel –

About the Mezquita de Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain:
A fascinating and beautiful building is the Mezquita de Cordoba or Mezquita of Cordoba (for “Mosque” in Spanish it is Mezquita), over the centuries the Cordoba has undergone by the many religious changes that building symbolizes it. Today the Cathedral of Cordoba (the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption officially) is the Mezquita de Cordoba, but of the Islamic architects is the work of its art and architecture the vast majority, in the 8th century as a mosque who built it.

The history of the Mezquita de Cordoba:
Long has been a sacred space on which the Mezquita de Cordoba stands the site, dedicated to Janus to a Roman temple it was host and in the 8th century before the construction of the mosque dedicated to St Vincent of Saragossa a Visigothic cathedral. In the early 13th century by the Christian conquerors inside the mosque a cathedral was added finally.

For over two centuries lasted the construction work of the Mezquita de Cordoba, of the emir of Cordoba the Abd ar-Rahman I under the supervision in 784 AD starting the work, of the Quran an original copy and of the prophet Mohammed an arm bone held the Mezquita de Cordoba under Abd ar-Rahman II (from 822 to 852), a major pilgrimage site of Muslim making it.

Numerous subsequent changes underwent the Mosque. In the 9th century ordered a new minaret Abd ar-Rahman III, while the plan of the building enlarged the Al-Hakam II and in 961 the mihrab he enriched. For the reforms the last which includes of the outer aisles the completion and the courtyard of orange tree in 987 by Al-Mansur Ibn Abi Aamir were completed.

In Cordoba of the more than 1,000 mosques the most magnificent was the Mezquita de Cordoba when finished. But to frequent invasion was the subject the Cordoba and to the architecture added their own mark each conquering wave.

By the King Ferdinand III of Castile from the Moors was captured the Cordoba in 1236 and Christendom rejoined. Largely undisturbed the architecture Mezquita initially left the Christians, consecrated it they simply, to the Virgin Mary dedicated it, and of Christian worship as a place used it.

Within the structure of the mosque the construction of the Villaviciosa Chapel and the Royal Chapel oversaw by the King Alfonso X. further Christian features who followed added the kings, in the 14th century the chapel was rebuilt by the Enrique II, with the Patronage of the Carlos V of a united Spain who was the king was constructed a nave.

In the 1520s by the Charles V in the very heart of the mosque was sanctioned the incongruous and heavy Baroque choir. Until the late 18th century to the existing structure continued to add the artists and architects, an intriguing architectural oddity making the Mezquita de Cordoba.

Since it was closed to Islam in the Mezquita de Cordoba to pray was the first Muslim was the Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal in 1931. A UNESCO World Heritage Site was made the historic center of Cordoba in 1984 which includes the Mezquita de Cordoba.

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