9th century Moorish minaret of San Juan next to church, built by Knights of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem Córdoba, Spain.
The worn and eroded Moorish minaret of San Juan is a tower belonging to an old mosque of the emiral-caliphal period, located in the Plaza de San Juan de Córdoba, in Córdoba City in the southern region of Andalusia, and the capital of the province of Córdoba, Spain. Built in the middle of the 9th century or the beginning of the 10th, ending the Emirate of Córdoba and beginning the Caliphate, it served as a call to the prayer of the mosque to which it would be attached. According to a plaque found and preserved in the Archaeological Museum of Cordoba, the mosque was built by the qadi Umar ben Hadabas during the government of Emir Abderramán II. After the conquest of the city by the Castilian troops of Ferdinand III in 1236, it was ceded to the knights of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, who built a church on the mosque.
Size: 3086px × 4554px
Location: Córdoba, Spain
Photo credit: © George Munday / Alamy / Afripics
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