Cordoba

Fire contained, historic mosque-cathedral in southern Spain ‘saved’

Considered a jewel of Islamic architecture, the site was built as a mosque — on the site of an earlier church — between the 8th and 10th centuries by the southern city’s then Muslim ruler, Abd ar-Rahman, an emir of the Umayyad dynasty
After Christians reconquered Spain in the 13th century under King Ferdinand III of Castile, it was converted into a cathedral and architectural alterations were made over following centuries

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