Jump to content

List of Moorish structures in Spain and Portugal

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The mihrab area of the Great Mosque of Córdoba (8th–10th centuries)
The Giralda tower (right), a former minaret (12th century), now part of the Seville Cathedral
The Alhambra complex in Granada, dating from the Nasrid period (13th–15th centuries), with later Christian Renaissance additions

This is a list of preserved or partly-preserved Moorish architecture in Spain and Portugal from the period of Muslim rule on the Iberian Peninsula (known as al-Andalus) from the 8th to 15th centuries. The list is organized by geographic location.

Spain

[edit]

Alhama de Granada

  • Arab baths of Alhama de Granada[1]

Alicante

Almería

Antequera

Árchez

Badajoz

Baños de la Encina

Córdoba

Gibraltar

Gormaz

Granada

Fiñana

  • Ermita de Nuestro Padre Jesús: former Almohad mosque with remains of mihrab and surface decoration[22][4]: 215 

Jaén

Jerez de la Frontera

Málaga

Mérida

Murcia

  • Castillejo de Monteagudo
  • Monastery of Santa Clara: remains of 12th-century al-Qasr al-Seghir (Alcázar Seguir)
  • Museum of the Church of San Juan de Dios: remains of mihrab of the former mosque of the main citadel (Alcázar Mayor)[23]

Niebla

Ronda

Seville

Tarifa

Toledo

Trujillo

Zaragoza

Portugal

[edit]

Albufeira

Lisbon

Mértola

Silves

Sintra

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Arab baths of Alhama de Granada". Portal de Turismo de la Provincia de Granada. 2 October 2013. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  2. ^ Ewert, Christian (1971). "El mihrab de la mezquita mayor de Almería". Al-Andalus. 36 (2): 460.
  3. ^ "Iglesia de San Juan | Almería, Spain Attractions". Lonely Planet. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h Barrucand, Marianne; Bednorz, Achim (1992). Moorish architecture in Andalusia. Taschen. ISBN 3822876348.
  5. ^ "Qantara – Original minaret of the mosque of Árchez". qantara-med.org. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  6. ^ "Archez". Andalucia.com. 5 August 2011. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  7. ^ Gil-Crespo, Ignacio-Javier (2016). "Islamic fortifications in Spain built with rammed earth". Construction History. 31 (2): 1–22.
  8. ^ "The Oldest Preserved Castle in Spain". Fascinating Spain (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 January 2022.
  9. ^ "Minaret of San Juan". Archnet. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  10. ^ "MINARET OF SAN JUAN". tutto CÓRDOBA. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  11. ^ "Qantara – Gormaz castle". qantara-med.org. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
  12. ^ "Qaysariyya of Granada". Archnet. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  13. ^ "Walls of Albaicín". Portal de Turismo de la Provincia de Granada. 1 October 2013. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  14. ^ "Minaret at Iglesia de San José". Archnet. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  15. ^ Marçais, Georges (1954). L'architecture musulmane d'Occident (in French). Paris: Arts et métiers graphiques.
  16. ^ "Minaret at Iglesia de San Juan de los Reyes". Archnet. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  17. ^ "Casa de Zafra. Centro de Interpretacion del Albaicin". albaicin-granada.com. Archived from the original on 13 May 2019. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  18. ^ Dickie, James (1992). "Granada: A Case Study of Arab Urbanism in Muslim Spain". In Jayyusi, Salma Khadra; Marín, Manuela (eds.). The Legacy of Muslim Spain. Brill. p. 101. ISBN 978-90-04-09599-1.
  19. ^ Petersen, Andrew (1996). Dictionary of Islamic architecture. Routledge. ISBN 9781134613663.
  20. ^ "Cuarto Real de Santo Domingo". Portal de Turismo de la Provincia de Granada. 11 May 2015. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  21. ^ Orihuela, Antonio (2021). "From the Private to the Public Space: Domestic and Urban Architecture of Islamic Granada". In Boloix-Gallardo, Bárbara (ed.). A Companion to Islamic Granada. Brill. pp. 421–424. ISBN 978-90-04-42581-1.
  22. ^ "Qantara – Église paroissiale de Fiñana". qantara-med.org. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  23. ^ Cobaleda, María Marcos (2020). Artistic and Cultural Dialogues in the Late Medieval Mediterranean. Springer Nature. p. 146. ISBN 978-3-030-53366-3.
  24. ^ Dodds, Jerrilynn D., ed. (1992). Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 0870996371.
  25. ^ "Baños de los Arabes (Arab baths)". Andalucia.com. 5 August 2011. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  26. ^ Fournier, Caroline (2016). Les Bains d'al-Andalus: VIIIe-XVe siècle. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes.
  27. ^ a b Bloom, Jonathan M. (2020). Architecture of the Islamic West: North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, 700–1800. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300218701.
  28. ^ "Iglesia Colegial del Salvador/Mosque of Ibn Abbas, Seville". IslamicLandmarks.com. 23 November 2012.
  29. ^ "Alcazaba de Trujillo » Castillos del Olvido". Castillos del Olvido (in Spanish). 12 April 2016. Archived from the original on 23 January 2021. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  30. ^ "Castillo de Trujillo | Trujillo, Spain Attractions". Lonely Planet. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  31. ^ Gaspar, Alexandra; Gomes, Ana; Oliveira, Teresa; Serra, Susana (2012–2013). "C Castelo de S. Jorge de Lisboa – Escavação, Musealização e Gestão de Património" (PDF). Arqueologia & Histórica (in Portuguese). 64–65: 203–2015.
  32. ^ Torres, Cláudio; Macias, Santiago; Gómez, Susana (2013). In the Lands of the Enchanted Moorish Maiden: Islamic Art in Portugal. Islamic Art in the Mediterranean. Museum With No Frontiers, MWNF (Museum Ohne Grenzen). ISBN 978-3-902782-13-7.