Memento Mauri: The Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba
<p>Cultural heritage debates are often as much about the present as they are about the past. The long history of attempts to alter, reform, and recreate Cordoba’s Mezquita-Catedral can help us understand Spain’s changing attitudes—neutralization, celebration, modification and rejection—toward its Islamic present and pasts.</p>
Authors: Michele Lamprakos
Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative
Part of: The Destruction of Cultural Heritage: From Napoléon to ISIS