La Mesquita

We are still here in Córdoba, and the weather is great! Now here is some interesting information for you about this beautiful city…

Córdoba was once the largest city in Western Europe (this was from about 900-1000 BC) and it was also the hub of the Moorish Empire. Nowadays however, it is a modestly-sized city of 310,000 people. This morning we decided to do some real sightseeing of Córdoba while we were there, so we went to a place called the Mesquita (Spanish for ‘mosque’).

The Mesquita is now a Roman-Catholic cathedral, although it was originally intended to be a mosque, and at one time was the second-largest mosque in the world. It is now considered to be the most important Islamic monument in the Western world. The most interesting parts of the Mesquita were the various Christian chapels placed around the inside of the building, as well as the huge cathedral in the middle. These clearly mark the transition of the Mesquita from an Islamic mosque into a Christian church.