My Pictures of Cordoba
“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” I found this more truth strongly reiterated at Cordoba again.
I found the Cordoba Mezquita (http://www.mezquitadecordoba.org/en/) is the most stunning master piece of the Islamic architecture in the Moorsland. It is impossible to overempasize the beauty of Cordoba's great Mosque with remarkably peaceful and spacious interior. The Mezquita hints, with all its lustrous decorations, at a lavish and refined age whem Muslims, Jews and Christians lived side by side with their diverse and Vibrant cultures.
Here is the video clip with translated subtitles from the great Poet Isqbal (Lyrics in Urdu translated in subtitles)
Many may not know that the “Cordoba House,” the name initially given to the projected Islamic cultural center in downtown New York in the vicinity of Ground Zero, has receded into the background and been replaced by “Park51,” a name derived from the address of the location. The name “Cordoba” had been chosen because it recalls the culture of pluralism and mutual tolerance that is thought to have reigned among Muslims, Jews, and Christians in medieval Spain. Apparently the project organizers came to feel that the name “Cordoba” was too contentious.
In the Islamic capital of Córdoba — the grand and much-admired city, with its beautiful mosques and highly developed urban landscape — Jews and Christians experienced substantial security and economic prosperity
