The Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba, known historically as the Great Mosque of Cordoba, is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cordoba in Andalusia, Spain. Built originally as a mosque under the Umayyad emirate and later converted for Catholic worship after the Christian reconquest, it is officially dedicated to the Assumption of Mary and is also known as the Mezquita.
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Built as the Great Mosque of Cordoba under Umayyad rule; a Renaissance cathedral nave was later inserted, but the building is predominantly Islamic in architecture.
Begun 785 under Abd al-Rahman I of the Umayyad Emirate of Cordoba as the Great Mosque, its horseshoe-arched hypostyle hall the defining Western Umayyad monument; later converted into a cathedral.
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