Secondary Mosques in Madinat Qurtuba: Islamization and Suburban Development through Minor Religious Spaces

Mosques are the most obvious materialization of Islam. They a clear sign its presence in particular territory, building where history and influence Islamic governments is reflected through their artistic elements architectural variants. However, they also essential for everyday life neighborhoods belong to, because inhabitants usually make use them daily prayers. Despite this importance, mosques have received very uneven treatment by researchers. This has resulted strong weighting scholarly interest towards Friday mosques, while smaller been largely forgotten traditional historiography. paper purposes to challenge way researching religious spaces al-Andalus. Focusing attention on Córdoba, examines role impact minor Madinat Qurtuba, capital al-Andalus, exploring part played urban development growth city. The present study focuses emiral period (when first examples these buildings start appear, 8th century) Christian conquest 13th century, as after event no new were erected