Al-Mansur's eastern expansion

زيادة المنصور الشرقية في جامع قرطبة

c. 987 CE · c. 377 AH† – c. 987 CE · c. 377 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

The hajib al-Mansur ibn Abi Amir added the great eastern enlargement to the mosque about 987, completing the plan the mosque has kept 1.

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The Umayyad Period
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al-Andalus & Europe
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9709809901000 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

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Great Mosque of Córdoba

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Abd al-Rahman I founds the Great Mosque· Abd al-Rahman II enlarges the mosque· Al-Nasir's minaret on the mosque· Al-Hakam II's expansion and mihrab· Cordoba· Great Mosque of Córdoba

Sources

  1. Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari
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Abd al-Rahman I founds the Great Mosque

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