Málaga (EFE) the adequacy of the space.
The archaeologist Carmen Íñiguez highlighted this Monday in the presentation that it is “a unique (archaeological) finding not only in Al-Andalus, but also in the rest of the Islamic world, of two mosques, not for worship, but funeral homes and a mausoleum”.
“We are located in the Yabal Faruh cemetery, the most important in Islamic Malaga, which survived from the 10th century until the conquest of the city in 1487”, he explained.
The funerary mosques correspond to the Almohad caliphate
These mosques correspond to the Almohad caliphate, and the mausoleum has two levels of use, one in said Almohad caliphate (12th-13th centuries) and a later one, in the Nasrid emirate (13th-15th centuries)”, according to Íñiguez.
The architecture is characterized by its simplicity, and the mosques and the mausoleum are exponents of an architecture “totally symbolic and with a lot of content”, with a decorative frieze with elements typical of the symbology of that time of the Almohad caliphate.
The careful decoration of the mausoleum was made in ocher stucco and distributed in panels with various motifs (cruciform, eight-pointed star, tree of life, palmettes and sebka board), which differentiates it from the simplicity of the mosques.
After the discovery of the archaeological find, it was decided to keep the remains “in situ” and not move them, so the Andalusian Government acquired the part of the building where they were located and from 2002 to 2004 they worked on the musealization of the space.
In 2007, it was registered as an Asset of Cultural Interest (BIC), “with the same protection as the Cathedral or the Alcazaba of Málaga”, highlighted the archaeologist, who specified that the visit “will contextualize what the city was in Islamic times , its topography and geographical aspects”.