The Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba, known in Spanish as the Mezquita, is a monument of Islamic and Christian architecture in southern Spain. It was begun by the Umayyad emir Abd al-Rahman I in the 780s on a site where a Visigothic church had stood, and was enlarged by his successors, including Abd al-Rahman II, al-Hakam II and al-Mansur. Its forest of columns and double arches in red and white stone is famous, as is the richly decorated mihrab. After Cordoba was captured by Ferdinand III of Castile in 1236, the mosque became a Catholic cathedral, and in the 16th century a Renaissance nave was built in its center. It was made a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1984.
Before and after
- 770 CEDeath of Du Fu
- from 772 CE to 804 CESaxon Wars
- 778 CEConstruction of Kiyomizu-dera
- 780 CEBirth of Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
- 786 CEConstruction of Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba
- 787 CESecond Council of Nicaea
- 8th centuryRise of Neo-Confucianism
- 8 June 793 CEVikings raid Lindisfarne
- from 794 CE to 1185Heian period
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