Murcia Cathedral Murcia Cathedral The Cathedral Church of Saint Mary in Murcia (Spanish: "Iglesia Catedral de Santa María en Murcia"), commonly called the Cathedral of Murcia, is a Catholic church in the city of Murcia, Spain. It is the only cathedral in use in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cartagena in Spain. The Christian king Jaime I the Conqueror conquered the city during the Mudéjar revolt of 1264–66. Despite an existing pact with the Muslims of the city that prevented the destruction of any mosque, Jaime I took the Great Mosque or Aljamía to consecrate it to the Virgin Mary; a custom
Ceuta Cathedral Ceuta Cathedral The Cathedral of St Mary of the Assumption () is a Roman Catholic church located in the Spanish city of Ceuta, in a small exclave on the northwest coast of Africa. On a primitive Eastern Roman Christian church, which some researchers have identified with the one built in the 6th-century by Emperor Justinian I, the old Great Mosque of Ceuta was built, an architectural work of enormous wealth according to the preserved descriptions, which underwent several enlargements and of which hardly anything is preserved. After the Portuguese conquest of 1415 this mosque was transformed into a Christian temple