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Mosque of Bab Mardum (Cristo de la Luz), AH 390 (1000), Toledo: Date: Taken on 8 August 2016, 12:14: Source: Mosque of Bab Mardum (Cristo de la Luz), AH 390 (1000), Toledo: Author: Richard Mortel from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
The Mosque of Cristo de la Luz is a Catholic chapel and former mosque in Toledo, Spain. It is one of the ten that existed in the city during the Moorish period. The edifice was then known as Mezquita Bab-al-Mardum , deriving its name from the city gate Bab al-Mardum .
Toledo hosted the second International Moslem Convention of the Islamic Society of North America due to an invitation by the Islamic Society of Toledo. [5] The land for the current mosque in Perrysburg, Ohio was purchased in 1978. [4] Astronomers from the University of Toledo were consulted to ensure the building was properly oriented to Mecca. [6]
The Mosque of las Tornerías (Spanish: Mezquita de las Tornerías; Arabic: al-Mustimim) is a former mosque in Toledo, in the Castile-La Mancha of Spain.The former Moorish-style mosque was built in the middle of the 11th century [1] on the foundations of Roman architecture, located in the old Muslim neighborhood Arrabal de Francos.
Facade The arcade of the former mosque blended in the church; its horseshoe arches rest on 6 reused Roman capitals and one Visigothic pilaster [1] The Visigothic decorative reliefs. The faces were scraped by the Muslims. [1] The Iglesia de El Salvador is a church in Toledo, Spain completed in 1159.
The building plans of the former mosque have not been preserved nor is the appearance of the structure known, but taking into account the preserved vestiges of mosques in other Spanish cities (in Seville, Jaén, Granada, Málaga, and the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba), it may be supposed that it was a columnary building, with horseshoe arcades ...
The Synagogue of Santa María la Blanca (Spanish: Sinagoga de Santa María La Blanca, lit. 'Synagogue of Saint Mary the White'), also known as the Ibn Shoshan Synagogue, [3] [4] is a former Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 4 Calle Reyes Católicos, in the historic old city of Toledo, in the province of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
Like the Qarawiyyin Mosque, there are doubts about the story of its foundation. The oldest parts of the present building date from the 10th century. [44] It was mostly reconstructed by the Almohads between 1203 and 1207. [48] Al-Naqah Mosque: Tripoli Libya: 973 Oldest Islamic monument in Tripoli, [49] though its history is not well-known. [50]