Mosques

SOURCE: Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. Entwurff einer historischen Architektur (Leipzig, 1725), book 3, pl. 4

SOURCE: Theodore C. Hope, James Fergusson. Architecture at Ahmedabad, the capital of Goozerat (London, J. Murray, 1866), plate 71

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.

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.

NOTES: Built as a Victory Tower in 1192, the Qutb Minar is the tallest brick minaret in the world.