Great Mosque (Mezquita), Cordoba: Puerta de Al Hakam II on the west wall
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Artist/Photographer | Cox, Bernard Hugh (1907?-1986) |
Country | Spain |
City | Cordoba |
Subject Date | 0987 |
Image Date | 1980 |
View | Exterior |
Style | Islamic |
Medium | 35mm Transparency |
Library Reference | E 21 |
Orientation | Portrait |
Colour Info | Colour |
Credit | Bernard Cox / RIBA Collections |
Subject | Mosques ; Decorative stonework ; Cathedrals ; Entrances |
NOTES: This former mosque became a place of Christian worship in 1236 when Cordoba was captured from the Moors by King Ferdinand III of Castile and the cathedral was built inside it largely in the 1520s.
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