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Córdova: The Door of the Mosque, in Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain more
mosques, moorish architecture, entrances, monks, people, trees
An ancient stone entrance, in a characteristic Moorish keyhole-shape, with a palm tree, and a raised façade with statues presumably added later by Christians.
The mosque at Córdova (or Córdoba now) was made using (the magazine claims) recycled materials, including pillars from temples at Carthage and elseewhere in Africa and in France and Spain.
The artist and engraver are not identified.
[...] while the general outward effect of the mosque is monotonous and almost clumsy, the details are generally beautiful. The spandrils and latticed openings of the doors, the elaborate intersections of the upper arches, are delicate and charming.
What the Christian has done to the mosque is tolerably well known. He has blocked up all the entrances but one (which can be realised by the reader in our [...] picture), and he has built a comparatively modern choir in the middle of the oriental forest of pillars. This barbarism was perpetrated, in spite of the opposition of the town council, in 1523 by Archbishop Alonzo Manrique. (p. 239)
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