Website by Carmen Maria Tagle, for Great Digs, Fall Semester 2016, CUNY Graduate Center.
Birdseye Photo: Aerial view of Cordoba Cathedral-Mosque: Image 2016 Google Earth
All photographs: by Alan Rose and Carmen Tagle 2015/2016
Video: by Carmen Tagle (published on YouTube).
Music: “The Splendour of Al-Andalus” by Calamus. Track #8: Dkhul Barwal “Alah Mudir Al-Rah”. MA Recordings. 1994. Recorded in the Monasterio de la Santa Espina.
In the ninth century, Ziryab, a great court musician and poet from Badghdad arrived in Cordoba. He founded a music school and brought the knowledge of how to build 40 musical instruments including his creation: the lute. The group called Calamus plays one of these pieces in traditional instruments.
Map (History page): https://attwiw.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/map-spain-2nd-half-9th-century.jpg?w=597&h=318
FloorPlan (Construction Phases):
www.infocordoba.com/spain/andalusia/cordoba/info/mosque/mosque_visitor_guide.htm
