Converted Churches and Mosques

Out of curiosity, I would like to know which current mosques had been originally churches and which current churches had orginally been mosques. I would like to restrict the thread only to those churches and mosques which remain still today in a converted state, not to those which had been converted back and forth at one time or another in the past.

As a third class, I would like to introduce those churches and mosques which were used at one time by the other faith and which nowadays serve as museum.


Churches orginally mosques

Giralda of Seville: Not the cathedral itself, but its bell tower, the famous Giralda. had been orginally a minaret, erected in the late 12th century.


Mosques originally churches

Do not know of any yet.


Museums:
- Hagia Sophia, Constantinople, Turkey
- Great Mosque of Cordoba, Spain

Any contributions?

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_of_non-Muslim_places_of_worship_into_mosques


Edited by Gun Powder Ma - 30-Sep-2006 at 09:34

I heard that some churches in the netherlands weren't used so muslims bought it and turned it into a mosk.

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I found this on wiki

so it only became famous because they changed it

Originally posted by xi_tujue so it only became famous because they changed it

No the normal process was to modify it or demoslih it & build a new mosque in its place.

Aya iranie- the smaller sister church next to the Aya Sofia that later served as a musuem and small private mosque to the Ottoman Sultan when he lived in Topkapi. I watched the Daniel Barenboim East-West divan orchestra play there = great fun!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_of_non-Muslim_places_of_worship_into_mosques

you are right Gun Powder they paid for Christians first before they built the great mosque in damascus.

There is a mosque in London, that was previously a synagogue, and before that various churches of different denominations.
Its actualy very common in large cities that have witnessed multiple migrations over extended peroids of time.

Alfonso the Great transformed the mosque of Toledo into a church two years after his conquest of the city breaking the word he had given to the muslim community.

I don't know if it counts but the Church of the St Vincent cap at the very South West of Portugal had been divided because it was a place of pilgrimage for the three relogions of Al Andalus.