Many Andalusian mosques, symbols of identity and power, were converted into churches following the arrival of Christianity. This process, sometimes immediate and at other times symbolic, reflected a strategy of domination through the consecration of Muslim places of worship as centres of Christian worship.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In Seville, the transformation of mosques into churches was particularly significant. The adaptation of these spaces involved the addition of altars, chapels and bell towers, altering the original identity of the Islamic buildings. However, the Islamic influence did not disappear completely: many Christian churches retain horseshoe arches, calligraphic plasterwork or minarets converted into bell towers, evidence of the coexistence and cultural reinterpretation that characterised the city\u2019s architecture.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mudejar art emerged as an expression of this cultural interaction. It is not merely decoration, but a functional Christian reinterpretation carried out using Islamic techniques, materials and styles. These elements transform the churches into living testimonies of a shared history, where architecture is used as both a tool of power and a repository of cultural memory.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The lecture \u201cFrom Mosques to Churches. The Islamic origins of some churches in Seville\u2019<\/a> will take place on Thursday 9 April at 7.00 pm in the Hassan II Pavilion, headquarters of the Three Cultures Foundation<\/a>. The lecture will be given by Susana Calvo Capilla, senior lecturer in Art History at the Complutense University of Madrid, PhD from the Autonomous University of Madrid and specialist in Islamic art. Her work focuses on the religious architecture of al-Andalus, and she is the author of \u201cThe Mosques of al-Andalus\u201d (Ibn Tufayl Foundation, 2014).\u00a0<\/p>\n Admission is free, although tickets are currently sold out, and the event relates to topics such as al-Andalus, academia, the church, Islam and mosques.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many Andalusian mosques, symbols of identity and power, were converted into churches following the arrival of Christianity. This…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3645,3840,3648,109,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-5676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seville","8":"tag-espana","9":"tag-fundacion-tres-culturas","10":"tag-l","11":"tag-seville","12":"tag-spain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}