Arch above the entrance west faade Grand Mosque Cordoba Spain thth Century Once the largest city of Roman Spain Cordoba later formed the heart of the western Islamic empire The citys hour of greatest glory was when it became the capital of the Moorish kingdom of ElAndalus and this was when work began on the Great Mosque or Mezquita which after several centuries of additions and enlargements became one of the largest in the Muslim world After the Spanish recaptured Cordoba in they built a Christian cathedral in the heart of the mosque complex
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