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Several such mosques in the areas of former Muslim rule have since been reconverted or have become museums, including the Parthenon in Greece and numerous mosques in Spain, such as Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba. Conversion of non-Islamic buildings into mosques influenced distinctive regional styles of Islamic architecture.
Pages in category "Religious buildings and structures converted into mosques" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Only surviving mosque building of 18 former mosques in the Jerez city. Converted into a church after Reconquista. [3] [4] Mosque of las Tornerías: Al-Mustimim Toledo: Spain: 1060 [5] Unusual two-storied mosque. Was built in a busy commercial neighborhood (Arrabal de Francos). Used as a church until 1498–1505, and other uses since.
The Spanish in the New World converted many Native American temples into churches, following their procedure in Spain against Muslim mosques, which were often originally Christian churches. [22] The Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral was built on an Aztec temple.
The mosque first expanded in November 2001, with more prayer space, a gym that hosted basketball games for Muslim youths, classrooms for Islamic schools on the weekends similar to Sunday schools ...
The term former mosque in this list includes any Muslim mosque (building) or site used for Islamic Prayer in Al-Andalus but is not so any longer. These former mosques were used as Muslim places of worship during the Al-Andalus period from 711 AD to 1492 AD when various Muslim Moorish kingdoms ruled parts of the Iberian Peninsula .
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For the Varanasi thing, the issue is a disagreement over what the article's scope should be (does "conversion of non-Muslim places of worship into mosques" mean "former temples and churches that became mosques," or also "mosques built on the same ground where other things used to be") - I have one position and I would be delighted if he would ...