Orihuela Cathedral Orihuela Cathedral Orihuela Cathedral ("Catedral de Orihuela") is the main Roman Catholic church of Orihuela, Valencian Community, southern Spain. It was built above a pre-existing Muslim mosque as a simple parish church, and was later converted into main church by order of King Alfonso X of Castile in 1281. In 1413, pope Benedict XIII elevated it to the rank of collegiate, until it become a cathedral in 1510. Construction was begun in the late 13th century in Valencian Gothic style, with a Latin cross plan including a nave and two aisles, an ambulatory and chapels within buttresses. The crossing, the
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