The Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba whose religious name is the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption is the Catholic church of the Diocese of Córdoba which devoted to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and situated in the Andalusia, a Spanish Region.
As stated by a traditional account, a small temple of Christian Visigoth source,
the Catholic Basilica of
Saint Vincent of Lérins, was initially mounted on the site. In
784 Abd al-Rahman I commanded development of the
Great Mosque, which was significantly prolonged by late Muslim leaders. Córdoba went
back to Christian rule in the year 1236 for the period of the Reconquista,
and the construction was transformed to a Roman Catholic Church, concluding in
the addition of a Renaissance cathedral nave in the 16th
century.
