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Ancient mosque of cordoba, converted in the XIII century in the current cathedral of cordoba, that constitutes the more important monument of the Hispanic-Moslem art, near the Alhambra. It is the third more big mosque of the world, behind someone's back of those of Casablanca and the prostitute since it has a surface of 23.400 square meters.History of the monument, according to a succinct version of the traditional story, the mosque of cordoba has been initialized below the reign of the first Abderramán I |omeya| amir between the 780 and the 785, on the Visigothic basilica of saint Vincent. It suffered successive enlargements in the IX centuries and x, and was finished below mandate of Almanzor. The more important thing of the enlargements is those of Alhakén II to the one that belongs the arcs of the mihrab. It went place of at the same time religious and political meetings because it could take shelter until twenty thousand peoples.http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezquita_de_C%C3 %B3rdoba

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