The Aljama Mosque of Medina Azahara

From the outside, it resembles a fortress, with rectangular buttresses on its side walls and square buttresses at the building's corners.

The building has a rectangular floor divided into a chapel with five naves and a courtyard with galleries on three of its sides.

Its minaret was quadrangular from the outside and octagonal on the inside, and was located in the gallery of the courtyard, next to the west gate.

The building style and features of the mosque of Medina Azahara reflect those used in the Great Mosque of Cordoba.

The Mosque of Medina Azahara was excavated in 1964 by Félix Hernández and Basilio Pavón Maldonado.

This drawing of a blind arch was salvaged during the archiving of material.

This plasterwork, with its decorative motifs inspired by nature, is present in various parts of the building, such as in these minaret archways.

The Caliph accessed the Aljama Mosque from one of the corners of the high garden using the "sabat" (sheltered walkway), a three-arched bridge.

The battlements were situated along the perimeter walls at the front of the building, the front entrance, the wall between the courtyard and the chapel, and the minaret.

Drawing by Basilio Pavón Maldonado, 1964.

The mosque sits outside the Medina complex, with a 3.5 m-wide walkway around its perimeter that is accessible from the street by a double staircase.

Part of this quotation from the Koran refers to the following verses: "Blessed is He who, if He willed, could have made for you [something] better than that—gardens beneath which rivers flow—and could make for you palaces."