Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba
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The Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Córdoba in the Spanish region of Andalusia. Officially called the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, it is dedic
Excavated Late Roman or Visigothic mosaics visible under the floor of the Mosque-Cathedral today
The columns and two-tiered arches in the original section of the mosque building. The columns and capitals are spolia from earlier structures.
Bab al-Wuzara ("Viziers' Gate", today the Puerta de San Esteban), one of the oldest surviving gates of the mosque. Its decoration dates from 855.
Minbar
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A minbar is a pulpit in a mosque where the imam stands to deliver sermons. It is also used in other similar contexts, such as in a Husayniyya, where the speaker sits and lectures the congregation.
Ottoman-era minbar of the Molla Çelebi Mosque in Istanbul.
The Fatimid minbar in the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, commissioned in 1091
The Minbar of Saladin in the al-Aqsa mosque, Jerusalem (photograph from 1930s). The minbar was built in wood and commissioned by Nur al-Din in 1168–69, then installed in the mosque by Saladin in 1187.
Details of geometric motifs and inlay work on the Mamluk-era Minbar of al-Ghamri (c. 1451) at the Khanqah of Sultan Barsbay, Cairo