Great Mosque (Mezquita), Cordoba: the forest of columns

SOURCE: James Cavanah Murphy. The Arabian antiquities of Spain (London, 1815), vol. 1, pl. V NOTES: This former mosque became a place of Christian worship in 1236 when Cordoba was captured from the Moors by King Ferdinand III of Castile and the cathedral was built inside it largely in the 1520s.