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The Mesquita at Cordoba
I visited Cordoba in 2003 and stayed in a hotel on the opposite side of the river. A friend guided us around the old city and started by picking us up from our hotel. We walked over the Roman bridge built several hundred years before the Visigothic church.
The site of that church was bought out by the moslem rulers some years after the conquest to build the Mesquita (Mosque) Our guide suggested that were it not for the Alhambra at Granada the Mesquita would be the most beatiful building in Spain. It is stunning.
After the re-conquest in 1236 several attempts were made to build a cathedral in the Mesquita until the current "baroque excrescence" was finished. Our guide described it thus. He thought the builders were trying to show their superioity as conquerors and succeeded in building a crude overbearing monstrosity which only served as contrast with the masterpiece of the Mesquita.
Which considering our guide was a Jesuit priest was a pretty big admission.
Later that day the same guide took us on a tour of the building housing the head quarters of the Spanish Inquisition in Cordoba. It was almost inevitably previously a moorish building where moslems had worshiped.
Spain is full of mosques which have become churches as Turkey is of he opposite(eg Santa Sophia) Numerous Synagogues also became churches though very rarely mosques.
The only constant is that religious charlatans of every colour and Gingrich is not alone will always stir up religious hatred to pursue their own agendas
I visited Cordoba in 2003 and stayed in a hotel on the opposite side of the river. A friend guided us around the old city and started by picking us up from our hotel. We walked over the Roman bridge built several hundred years before the Visigothic church.
The site of that church was bought out by the moslem rulers some years after the conquest to build the Mesquita (Mosque) Our guide suggested that were it not for the Alhambra at Granada the Mesquita would be the most beatiful building in Spain. It is stunning.
After the re-conquest in 1236 several attempts were made to build a cathedral in the Mesquita until the current "baroque excrescence" was finished. Our guide described it thus. He thought the builders were trying to show their superioity as conquerors and succeeded in building a crude overbearing monstrosity which only served as contrast with the masterpiece of the Mesquita.
Which considering our guide was a Jesuit priest was a pretty big admission.
Later that day the same guide took us on a tour of the building housing the head quarters of the Spanish Inquisition in Cordoba. It was almost inevitably previously a moorish building where moslems had worshiped.
Spain is full of mosques which have become churches as Turkey is of he opposite(eg Santa Sophia) Numerous Synagogues also became churches though very rarely mosques.
The only constant is that religious charlatans of every colour and Gingrich is not alone will always stir up religious hatred to pursue their own agendas
