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Mezquita: Exterior detail, old wall of the mosque prayer hall, showing Umayyad ornamentation

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posted on 2017-07-05, 00:00 authored by G. Massiot & cie
Each door has a blind horseshoe arch inscribed in an alfiz above an arched lintel and are framed with niches and blind arcades that often exhibit such complex arch types as interlaced or polylobed arches.\u000a\u000aConstructed on a simple hypostyle plan, \u201BAbd al-Rahman's mosque of 785 consisted of 11 aisles of 12 bays that, like the Great Mosque at Damascus, ran perpendicular to a walled court. Each bay was defined by a set of two-tiered horseshoe arches with alternating red brick and white stone voussoirs, which were later coloured. It was enlarged by building programs until 988. In 1236 Ferdinand III of Castile and a number of bishops purified the Great Mosque for Christian worship, consecrating it as a cathedral dedicated to S Mar\u00EDa. The building was initially altered only by the creation of St. Clement's Chapel and by a number of Christian burials. Large-scale alterations began with the Capilla Real (late 13th century-early 14th), a pantheon for the kings of Castile. It was altered drastically by the construction of a vast cathedral at its centre in 1523. A UNESCO World Heritage Site.

History

Alt Title

Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción

Date Created

1910-01-01

Date Modified

2017-07-05

Spatial Coverage

Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain: Andalusia; Cordova +37.879194-4.779722 Córdoba

Temporal Coverage

before or circa 1910

Cultural Context

['Late Gothic', 'Umayyad']

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