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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...