Mosque (in Spanish “mosque” in Arabic مسجد “Masjid”) is a Roman
Catholic cathedral in Cordoba, Spain. It was originally designed
as a warehouse / temple / lighthouse. Later, he became the
second largest mosque in the world. Construction of the mosque
began in about the sixth century after Christ as Christian
church Visigoths. Later, Mezquita (Mosque originally Aljama) was
more than two centuries to restore the mosque in 784 AD, under
the leadership of the first Muslim Emir Abd ar-Rahman I, which
uses it as a supplement to his palace and named in honor of his
wife . Land was purchased the Amir of the previous owners. It is
anticipated that the Visigoths site includes the Cathedral of
San Vicente. If the forces of Tariq ibn Ziyad first occupied
Cordoba in the year 711, Christian cathedral was suppressed.
Several explanations have been proposed to explain the
unorthodox indication of the mosque. Some believe that Mihrab
faces south, because the foundation of the mosque, were from the
ancient Romans and Visigoths