{"id":185,"date":"2020-05-27T18:32:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T18:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gavilansevilla.com\/en\/?p=185"},"modified":"2020-09-28T22:11:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T22:11:05","slug":"the-salvador-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gavilansevilla.com\/en\/the-salvador-church\/","title":{"rendered":"The Salvador Church"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Once 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.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From mosque to Christian church<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The mosque was known as the Aljama mosque of Ibn Adabbas, it was built in the year 830 on Visigoth and Roman remains. It\u2019s considered to be one of the oldest structures dating from the Muslim period<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nonetheless, there is not much left of the medieval church built after the conquest. With the passing of time, it deteriorated little by little, until the 17th<\/sup> century when it was decided to knock it down and build a new church according to the style of the time, baroque. <\/p>\n\n\n\n