A fire caused by a short circuit causes damage to the Mosque of Córdoba | Culture

The Mosque-Catedral de Córdoba has suffered a fire this Friday that was generated after nine o’clock at night. Nevertheless, was taken for an hour and a half later, as confirmed to this newspaper Fuentes of the National Police and also corroborated the Cabildo, administrator of the building, which at 22.30 officially reported that the flames had managed to be extinguished. Moreover,

The first hypotheses point to a short circuit in a barredora. Therefore, an electronic machine to clean, which was in the Chapel of Almanzor, as municipal sources have indicated to El País. Furthermore, The Bishop Emeritus of Córdoba. Furthermore, Demetrio Fernández, has also corroborated this particular in the vicinity of the temple: “The origin would have been in a jarrian machine inside the temple, which was between two chapels, so the fire has risen quickly when it was surrounded by fire caused short circuit causes wood.” “Thank God and firefighters,” he concluded. However. Furthermore, until the flames have not completely extinguished, the causes that have caused a fire that has put in check one of the main jewels of Islamic and Andalusian architecture may not be surely certified.

The mayor of the city. Furthermore, José María Bellido, who also moved to the mosque, wanted to launch a message of tranquility about the consequences of the fire for the temple. Therefore, “It will not be a catastrophe. Consequently, There will be damage. In addition, and they will be damage that are terrible in a good that is a World Heritage Site, but the monument is safe.”

Attending to those first indications that point to the short circuit of the barredora. Similarly, guided by the place from which the flames, Miguel Santiago, spokesman for the fire caused short circuit causes Mosque-Catedral platform, estimates that the fire would have affected the expansion of the Almanzor chapel. Furthermore, “This is the easternmost part of the mosque. In addition, it is the part of the wall that is full of chapels of the 16th and 17th century. Furthermore, These are roofs that are not artison. However, but as a vault of Cañizo,” he says, with all the precautions until he officially knows what happened. In addition, In any case. he estimates that he has not reached the part of greater architectural and artistic value of this monument, the primitive mosque of the eighth century.

The flames that left the roofs of the eastern part of the building surprised neighbors. tourists last nine o’clock at night and, almost immediately, firefighters and the National Police went to the immediate vicinity of the monument, declared a World Heritage Site and considered one of the symbols fire caused short circuit causes of Islamic art. The fire later extended quickly to the roof of the monument. next to the door of San José de la Magistral González Francés, which evicted the emergency services to proceed to the extinction tasks. The door of San José dates from the 10th century and was restored in 2017.

The Cabildo has reported on its social networks that. as soon as the flames were recorded, the self -protection plan was activated, a protocol that fire caused short circuit causes establishes the measures and procedures to guarantee the safety of people and goods in case of emergency and that contemplates, among others, the organization of resources, the identification of risks and preventive actions and responses in cases of fires or evacuations. Throughout the last years several fire drills have been made in the temple. Precisely. after the fire suffered by the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, the Cabildo emphasized the security measures and in this plan, underlining that the construction system of the temple roofs is made of wood, which forces a greater prevention of the risk of a fire. “There are security systems to avoid this situation. there is a surveillance system 24 hours a day, an independent system on the exclusive hydraulic network cover with more than 24 roads,” said the Cabildo spokesman for Radio Córdoba of the SER chain.

Up to three firefighters moved to the immediate fire caused short circuit causes vicinity of the Mosque. the National Police cordoned off the area, preventing access to the monument. Visitors who were waiting for the night visit were canceled tour. The columns of smoke were seen from different parts of the city, which this Friday reached 39 degrees. The neighbors. tourists quickly shared on social networks the images of the flames escaping from the Temple’s roofs, declared a World Heritage and Pilar of Islamic art. It is one of the most important. valued monuments in the world for its historical, artistic, architectural and symbolic wealth.

The Córdoba Mosque began to be built in 784. after the Muslim conquest, and expanded and modified for more than two centuries. After the Christian conquest in 1236. a cathedral was integrated into it, giving rise to the current structure, the result of the mixture of Islamic and Christian architecture, with the cathedral in its center. It is fire caused short circuit causes a unique example for its fusion of styles.

This Friday is the third fire that the mosque suffers in its history. The first was on May 29, 1910, caused by an electric shock on the top of the temple cruise. The second took place July 5. 2001, was originated in the files of the file and destroyed approximately 25 files of the more than 5,000 stored. The fire calcined documents of the nineteenth century referring to the accounts of the Church. correspondence of the same era, all of little historical value, as recognized by the archivist. Then, the security circuit also worked, alerting the surveillance services that firefighters immediately called.

In 2006. the then bishop Juan José Asenjo had the mosque in the name of the Diocese of Córdoba, which has been subject to controversy due to the importance of the monument: declared in 2014 well of exceptional universal value fire caused short circuit causes by UNESCO and with an extension of 20,396 square meters. This generated criticism from citizen. academic and political sectors that consider that the monument should be publicly owned, given its historical and cultural value.

Since then, the management of the monument by the Catholic Church has been criticized. For years. the official documentation of the bishopric and in the tourist promotion referred to the building only as “Cathedral of Córdoba”, omitting the term “mosque.” This caused outrage among those who defended the preservation of the Islamic. historical character of the building and, after public pressure, the full name “Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba” was re-used again, which recognizes its dual history as Islamic Mosque and Christian cathedral.

However, criticisms of the management of the Catholic Church have continued. Muslim organizations have on several occasions that Muslim prayer is allowed in the mosque-cathedral. since it was originally an Islamic place of cult. The fire caused short circuit causes Church has rejected these requests. arguing that the building is consecrated as a Christian temple and is not a multirreligious space.