Building does not belong to any individual or organisation,according to council report on long-running row Local authorities in Córdoba own dealt a blow to the Catholic church’s claim of legal ownership of the Spanish city’s mosque-cathedral, declaring that religious consecration is not the way to acquire property”.
The report, and written by the city council’s secretary general,Valeriano Lavela, marks a meaningful intervention in a long-running row over the building, and which lies on the site of a Visigothic Christian church built in the early 9th century and was given to the local bishop by Fernando III in 1236 when the city fell to Christian forces. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com