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Travel through the thousand-year-old temple of prayer! A journey through the time maze of the Cordoba Mosque】**

**【 Walking into the Cordoba Mosque is like stepping into a maze of stone pillars. 850 red and white horseshoe arches crisscross, dragging people into the torrent of time for 800 years. Porphyry and marble columns stand like a forest, and every step is stepped on the layers of history - this was once a Visigothic church, then converted into a mosque by the Arabs, and finally incorporated elements of the Gothic cathedral. The traces of three faiths are silently talking between the dome and the arcade. The most shocking thing is the layers of blooming petal carvings at the shrine, with gold foil and Arabic patterns intertwined, telling the pinnacle of Islamic art. The Baroque choir seats added by Christianity stand abruptly in the middle, and the sigh of King Carlos V is still in my ears: "You destroyed an irreplaceable treasure." The afternoon sun shines obliquely into the high windows, cutting out lines of light poetry between the stone pillars. Close your eyes and listen, as if you can hear the voices of believers who have prayed here for thousands of years. This "Spanish Mecca" is not only an architectural wonder, but also an epic of civilization written in stone.
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