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Our stock photography of Moorish culture and historic monuments in Cordoba, Spain includes travel images of the Great Mosque of Cordoba, called La Mezquita. These stock photos show the splendid Moorish architecture of the Great Mosque with its long rows of striped horseshoe arches. Horseshoe arches fill the prayer hall of the Great Mosque of Cordoba and lead your eye to the Mihrab or prayer niche. Our stock photographs of the Mihrab show walls richly decorated with Byzantine mosaics and surmounted with a splendid dome. Construction of the Great Mosque or La Mezquita of Cordoba began with the Moorish caliph Abd ar-Rahman in the 8th century and continued until Cordoba fill to the Christian Reconquest and our stock photos reveal these different periods. Muslims approached the Great Mosque through the Patio de los Naranjos or Courtyard of the Orange Trees. Our stock photography shows where Muslims would bath at fountains in the Patio de los Naranjos before entering La Mezquita for prayer. Once inside the Prayer Hall of the Great Mosque the interior with its horseshoe arches would seem like a vast grove of palm trees. Our travel images of Cordoba also show the medieval, whitewashed homes and courtyards in the Moorish neighborhoods. Plus stock photography of the Molino de la Albolafia or Moorish waterwheel which lifted water from the Guadalquivir River to the Alcazar Palace. Near the Molino de la Albolafia waterwheel our stock photos show the ancient Roman Bridge of Cordoba that crosses the Guadalquivir River.
We have stock photography travel pictures of Cordoba that includes the Moorish Medina Azahara Palace built by the Moorish Caliph Abd al Rahman III, in 936, on a hillside near Cordoba. Our stock photos of Medina Azahara show the richly decorated arches and courtyards of this once spectacular Moorish Palace. Our stock photographs also show the medieval Jewish architecture in the Juderia or Jewish quarter of Cordoba with its synagogue and statue of the famous Jewish philosopher Maimonides. Outside of Cordoba our travel images show the Moorish castle of Almodovar del Rio used by Pedro the Cruel once he ruled Cordoba. This stock photography of Moorish architecture in Cordoba, Spain is available as digital stock photos on the Odyssey Photo website or from Odyssey Productions stock photography agency in Chicago.
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