Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba construction of the Great Mosque, which was considerably expanded by later Muslim rulers. Córdoba returned to Christian rule in 1236 during the Reconquista, and the building was converted to a Roman Catholic church, culminating in the insertion of a Renaissance cathedral nave in the 16th century. Since the early 2000s, Spanish Muslims have lobbied the Roman Catholic Church to allow them to pray in the cathedral. This Muslim campaign has been rejected on multiple occasions, both by the church authorities in Spain and by the Vatican. It is commonly believed that the site of the Mosque-Cathedral was originally a Christian
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