Cordoba Symbol of Religious Tolerance

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Islamic cultural center in downtown New York in the vicinity of Ground Zero, has receded into the background and been replaced by “Park51,” a name derived from the address of the location.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