Every day, thousands of Moroccans cross the border to work in Ceuta, and Arabic and Spanish are both spoken on the streets. Churches sit alongside mosques, as well as Sephardic synagogues and even ...

People kneel in prayer at the Royal Chapel of the mosque-cathedral in Córdoba, Spain, in this 1836 engraving ... by lattices and with an altar inside. The end of the 15th century and beginning ...

Step into a storybook town where whitewashed walls are punctuated by flower-filled patios and a mosque dating back more than ...

Today, the Mezquita is a complex flashpoint in Spanish society. As a working cathedral, Muslims are not allowed to pray inside the most mosque-like parts of the structure, a decision that has long ...

When the Muslim community in the southern Spanish city of Granada built a new mosque this summer - the city's first for 500 years - it was to considerable local opposition. During eight centuries of ...

Muslims are prohibited by the Catholic Church from praying inside the Mosque-Cathedral. In the early 1970s, the Saudi government offered to pay Spain millions of dollars to move the cathedral out ...

Cordoba, the sultry city of Andalusia, Spain, was under Moorish rule for more ... With Muslim rule, the courtyards functioned as a private space inside houses especially for the women of the ...

From here, you can see more clearly the intricate design of the carpet. Almost every wall inside Astana's Grand Mosque is covered in carvings, mosaics or gold. The swirling patterns seen on the ...