Christian forces captured the Umayyad capital in 1236, but left its glorious house of worship largely untouched when converting it to a cathedral.

Step into a storybook town where whitewashed walls are punctuated by flower-filled patios and a mosque dating back more than ...

The Columbia Center for the Core Curriculum this semester amended the syllabus of Art Humanities to add a Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba and Amiens Cathedral unit to the curriculum. The Spanish mosque ...

While liberal elites focus on the soon-to-rise Cordoba mosque as a symbol of religious tolerance, liberty and interfaith understanding, other issues have been pushed to the sidelines – issues ...

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 ...

The New York Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously not to stop the demolishing an existing building – clearing the way for the Ground Zero mosque.

Little Green Footballs has been doing a lot of Cordoba-related heavy lifting in recent days, pointing out over and over again the brutish idiocy of much of the opposition to the so-called Ground ...

This is how Allama Muhammad Iqbal described the mosque of Cordoba in his famous poem Masjid-e-Qartaba; written in 1933, about five years before the poet's death. A note under the title of the poem ...

CORDOBA (AFP) - The Spanish city of Cordoba boasts that different faiths have long co-existed there, but locals are now squabbling over its star tourist attraction: a cathedral that was once a mosque.

FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2009 file photo, tourists visit the Great Mosque of Cordoba in southern Spain. The regional government of southern Andalusia is protesting what it says are moves by the ...

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 ...