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  • (Spanish) Cathedral may see return of Muslims

    04/19/2004 7:10:38 AM PDT · by NYer · 32 replies · 118+ views
    The Guardian ^ | April 19, 2004 | Ben Sills
    Muslims across Spain are lobbying the Roman Catholic church in the southern city of Córdoba to make a symbolic gesture of reconciliation between faiths by allowing them to pray in the city's cathedral. Córdoba's renaissance cathedral sits in the centre of an ancient mosque complex, and local Muslims want to be allowed to pray there again. They have appealed to the Vatican to intercede on their behalf. Zakarias Maza, the director of the Taqwa mosque in neighbouring Granada, said yesterday: "We hope the Vatican will give a signal that it has a vision of openness and dialogue. "It would be...