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More than 1,000 pillars of granite, onyx, marble and jasper support the arches of the Mezquita in Cordoba, southern Spain.

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More than 1,000 pillars of granite, onyx, marble and jasper support the arches of the Mezquita in Cordoba, southern Spain. The Moors conquered Cordoba in 711 and under their rule the city became a centre of art, architecture, philosophy and poetry. During this period, Muslims, Christians and Jews coexisted creatively here but in 1236 Ferdinand and Isabella seized Cordoba and from 1482 the Inquisition maintained a tribunal in the Alcázar (castle) for three centuries. The Mezquita remained standing but an incongruous Baroque cathedral was built in the middle of it.

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as Indonesian Muslim women celebrate the day of the birth of Prophet Mohammed in March 2008Children wait as Muslims pray at the start of the Eid-al-Adha celebrations in Jakarta, IndonesiaIndonesian men praying in March 2008, on the birthday of the prophet Muhammed. Muslims arrive in Jakarta in a small boat for the Eid-al-Adha celebrations, marking the end of the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca.

Pilgrims at the Shrine of Jalaluddin Rumi in Konya, Turkey. A Turkish woman in a headscarf waits for a bus in Istanbul. An African Muslim migrant prays at a mosque near a short stay immigration centre in the Spanish enclave of Melilla, North Africa.More than 1,000 pillars of granite, onyx, marble and jasper support the arches of the Mezquita in Cordoba, southern Spain.

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