A few decades later, around 750, power in Damascus changed hands from the Umayyads to another powerful Muslim faction, the Abbasids. Afraid for his life, Abd al-Rahman, a son of an Umayyad prince ...

Times reader “lachnowicz” captured this stunning view inside Great Mosque of Córdoba in Spain. One of the largest sacred Islamic buildings in the world, the mosque is slightly smaller than St ...

CÓRDOBA, Spain The great mosque of Córdoba was begun by the Muslim caliphs in the eighth century, its forest of pillars and red-and-white striped arches meant to convey a powerful sense of the ...

A regional government in southern Spain has filed a complaint with Roman Catholic Church authorities over what it believes are church moves in recent years to blot out the Islamic past of Cordoba ...

The Great Mosque of Cordoba was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1984 and the property was extended in 1994 to include part of the Historic Centre, the Alcázar (the fortress), and extending ...

He built the mosque on the site of St. Vincent, a church the Muslims had purchased from Cordoba's Christian community. In later centuries, succeeding rulers enlarged and beautified the mosque until it ...

The great mosque at Cordoba was built over the Christian Church of St. Vincent. The eighth century Al-Aqsa Mosque rests on the site of the destroyed Jewish Second Temple in Jerusalem.

The Mezquita, or Great Mosque of Córdoba, was for centuries a symbol of diversity and tolerance in the southern Spanish city and has long been one of Europe's most admired historical monuments.

Is the future of Cordoba's Great Mosque under threat? Available for over a year. There are concerns that a rise in far-right politics threatens Spain's Muslim heritage Read more.