Mezquita de al-Munastīr

Today: Mezquita de Almonaster la Real, Almonaster la Real

Place: al-Munastīr (Almonaster la Real)
Kind: Mosque
Built: 9th to 10th century
What remains: Standing

A small Umayyad mosque of the 9th and 10th centuries, built inside the castle over a 6th-century Visigothic basilica, with reused Roman and Visigothic columns and capitals. Turned into a chapel after the conquest, it is the only Andalusi mosque in rural Spain to survive almost intact: it keeps the five-aisled prayer hall, the courtyard partly cut into the rock, the mihrab and the minaret.

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