Great Mosque (Mezquita), Cordoba: the Mihrab
Country | Spain |
City | Cordoba |
Subject Date | 971 |
Image Date | 1880 |
View | Interior |
Style | Islamic |
Medium | Photoprint |
Library Reference | 41756/7 |
Orientation | Portrait |
Colour Info | Colour |
Credit | RIBA Collections |
Subject | Arches ; Cathedrals ; Decorative stonework ; Mosques ; Arcades |
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.
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