Title

Arch above entrance, west façade, Grand Mosque, Cordoba, Spain, 8th-11th Century. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Arch above the entrance, west façade, Grand Mosque, Cordoba, Spain, 8th-11th Century. Once the largest city of Roman Spain, Cordoba later formed the heart of the western Islamic empire. The city's hour of greatest glory was when it became the capital of the Moorish kingdom of El-Andalus, and this was when work began on the Great Mosque, or Mezquita, which, after several centuries of additions and enlargements, became one of the largest in the Muslim world. After the Spanish recaptured Cordoba in 1236, they built a Christian cathedral in the heart of the mosque complex.

Date

784th century

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Art Media

Reference

HRM19C00_029

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (2,7Mb) / 17,3in x 11,2in / 5189 x 3365 (300dpi)

Keywords

building buildings religious architecture mosque archway arch country religion Spain Spanish Moorish color colour Andalusia Muslim Islam Islamic Moslem location century Cordoba Architectural Feature 10th Century tenth century Mezquita Art Media 11th century 8th century 9th century TGN Eleventh Century Unknown