At the center of the famous Spanish UNESCO World Heritage City of Cordoba stands an interesting structure known as the Mezquita; a building that has to be seen to be believed.  In a stunning reversal of the Muslim practice of converting captured churches into mosques, as with the case of Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock and Istanbul's Hagia Sophia, the Mezquita was the former Great Mosque of Al-Andalus.. turned into a grand Catholic cathedral! * Officially known as the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, the Mezquita looks nothing like your typical Christian place of worship. A note from the writer: this is a pre-pandemic tale. * In fact, the Mezquita is one of the best examples of Moorish architecture, a very specific style of Islamic architecture popular across Southern Spain and Portugal, as well as North Africa. * Built in 784 AD under orders from the Emir of Cordoba, Abd al-Rahman I, the Mezquita is one of the crowning legacies of the Umayyad ...