My heart tingled with emotion and excitement as I stepped into the fabled Great Mosque of Codoba. Five times I had journeyed to what was once the capital of western Islam to visit its ...

Over four decades ago, when I first visited Cordoba, General Franco was firmly in control, civil liberties were non-existent, the influence of the Catholic Church was stifling and the country was one ...

Turkey will restore a masjid (prayer room for Muslims) in Andalusia, a region that was controlled by its Muslim rulers for a few centuries in the Iberia Peninsula in Spain's southern city of Cordoba, ...

Local campaigners in Córdoba are celebrating the end of a long-standing feud with the Catholic Church over the status of the city's Mosque-Cathedral, in a conflict that spilled into the political ...

CORDOBA (AFP) - The Spanish city of Cordoba boasts that different faiths have long co-existed there, but locals are now squabbling over its star tourist attraction: a cathedral that was once a mosque.

Madrid: Spanish campaigners accuse the country's Catholic Church of trying to cover up the Islamic history of Cordoba Cathedral, a world heritage site that was originally a mosque. It is one of the ...

While liberal elites focus on the soon-to-rise Cordoba mosque as a symbol of religious tolerance, liberty and interfaith understanding, other issues have been pushed to the sidelines – issues that may ...

As we set foot into the Mosque-Cathedral, on the right-hand side of the entrance is an old washbowl, or what is popularly called a sink. It is engrained into the wall. It was probably used for ...