Great Mosque of Cordoba
الجامع الأعظم بقرطبة
A great mosque unlike any other among the mosques of the Muslims, about a hundred bay long and eighty wide, with more than a thousand columns; its qibla is decorated with gilded and coloured glass, with a pulpit, mihrab and dome, which al-Idrisi describes in detail. 1
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The Great Mosque of Cordoba is a great mosque. Al-Idrisi says that no mosque of the Muslims resembles it. It is a hundred cubits long and about eighty wide, with a thousand columns and more. Its qibla is decorated with gilded and coloured glass, and it has a pulpit, a prayer niche and a dome, which he describes in detail. 2
It lies in Cordoba.
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 575
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.575
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