1.0Gavilansevilla.com (en)https://gavilansevilla.com/enC. Gavilánhttps://gavilansevilla.com/en/author/carmen/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="3BxqHKNLso"><a href="https://gavilansevilla.com/en/the-salvador-church/">The Salvador Church</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://gavilansevilla.com/en/the-salvador-church/embed/#?secret=3BxqHKNLso" width="600" height="338" title="“The Salvador Church” — Gavilansevilla.com (en)" data-secret="3BxqHKNLso" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); /* ]]> */ </script> https://gavilansevilla.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/portada-sevigliana.com-ver-iglesias-salvador-scaled.jpg25601714Once it was the first great mosque of Seville. Today it is the second biggest Christian church in the city and the expression of Sevillian baroque. Before the construction of the Aljama Almohad mosque, which was later transformed into the Cathedral, the biggest mosque of the city was the current Salvador Church. From mosque to Christian church The mosque was known as the Aljama mosque of Ibn Adabbas, it was built in the year 830 on Visigoth and Roman remains. It’s considered to be one of the oldest structures dating from the Muslim period in Spain. As was the custom, with the Christian conquest the Islamic temples were devoted to the new religion, and this church, built on the remains of the former mosque, is now the second largest church in Seville. Nonetheless, there is not […]