Mezquita

It's hard to understand the tremendous architectural power of the Mezquita in Córdoba at first glance. Outside, it's an unassuming, unremarkable, restructured Christian cathedral. Until you enter the orange grove outside the exterior walls and then into the actual structure. This is no simple building. This is the work of truly inspired desert dwellers living in a far-off land trying to get closer again to their god. See the palm trees in the columns and the dappled sunlight in the arches, hear the desert wind wash the floor with red sand, feel the space and aloneness and isolation yet also tranquility allowing the believer to be closer and unclothed and open and quiet and naked. This is no Christian space.




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