https://freerepublic.com/tag/cordobacathedral/ en-us Wed, 27 Dec 2006 00:30:30 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1758739/posts Muslims ask to worship at Cordoba More than a million of Spain's 44 million inhabitants are Muslims [GALLO/GETTY] Spanish Muslims have written to the Vatican to demand the right to worship at Cordoba Cathedral. Spain's Islamic Board wrote to Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday, calling on him to grant them permission to worship in the cathedral, parts of which were built as a mosque during Spain's period of Islamic rule. The group said in their letter: "What we wanted was not to take over that holy place, but to create in it, together with you and other faiths, an ecumenical... Al Jazeera https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1758739/posts#comment Wed, 27 Dec 2006 00:30:30 GMT