Perhaps most notable was a minaret, the tower used to call Muslims to prayer. Abd al-Rahman III built what some historians consider the mosque’s first true minaret in 951-52. The original ...

The interior of Cordoba's Mezquita ... Seville's Giralda, the belltower of its cathedral, served as a mosque's minaret when the city was under Moorish rule. (Bob Sessions) Next we traveled ...

After the fall of Al-Andalus and the Spanish Reconquista in AD 1236, Christians repurposed the mosque, adding an altar beneath its skylight and a bell to its minaret. What is left today ...

In the 13th century, under Ferdinand III, the Saint, Cordoba's Great Mosque was turned into a cathedral and new defensive structures, particularly the Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos and the Torre ...