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Andalusia · Iberia

Córdoba.
Read the city.

What survives when a place changes hands?

A mosque grows. A synagogue changes use. A river crossing is rebuilt. Follow the city through worship, authority and the movement of objects.

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CÓRDOBA Present-day orientation
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Streets · places · building outlines

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This is a modern orientation plan. The readings follow different centuries. Zoom centres on your selected place. River width is symbolic. The synagogue marker locates the site; it does not trace its footprint.

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Umayyad mosque · later cathedral

Mosque–Cathedral

A place of worship enlarged, adapted and restored.

Abd al-Rahman I commissioned Córdoba’s congregational mosque. Successive rulers expanded it. The cathedral’s timeline records consecration to Catholic worship in 1236 and a new transept begun in 1523. Those changes belong to different political and religious moments.

Look closer

Compare the repeated prayer-hall bays with the later cathedral crossing. A building can retain earlier fabric while its worship changes.

People behind the place

Al-Hakam II enlarged the mosque. Bishop Alonso Manrique commissioned the later transept from Hernán Ruiz I.

  1. Eighth–tenth centuries

    The mosque is commissioned and enlarged.

  2. 1236

    Consecration to Catholic worship.

  3. 1523 onward

    A new cathedral crossing changes the interior.

Does one outline represent one religious moment?

No. Read the surviving space as a sequence of interventions, rather than a single date or belief.

Follow the evidence

This reading uses the cathedral institution’s interpretation. Its account of what preceded the mosque is not treated here as an independently settled archaeological finding.

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About this city edition

Selected places, with institutional histories opened on 14 October 2026. This is an introduction, not a complete city inventory or an archaeological survey. Later fabric and uncertainties are described beside each place.

The modern orientation plan uses OpenStreetMap data retrieved on 14 October 2026. It is not a reconstruction of an earlier city. Selected outlines may represent a site as well as a building; a point marker is not a footprint. River width is symbolic. The synagogue marker locates the site; it does not trace its footprint.

Download the adapted map database under the Open Database License. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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