Mosque of Christ of the Light

This church was built on the ruins of the former Bab Al-Mardum mosque, rebuilt in the X Century. It is presented as a Visigothic church.

It became a temple in the XII Century, when an apse and a transept in Mudejar were added. Only the well of ablutions has survived.

Inside, it is divided into two parts, in which walls there are peculiar murals from the XII Century. The small nave from the X Century has four columns with Visigothic capitals and nine rib vaults in Caliphal style.

Its name comes from a tradition, during the Saracen domination the Christians hide a Christ with a light switched on, that stayed on during three hundred seventy three years of dominations. The small gardens of this church give access to the interior of the Puerta del Sol (Masterpiece of the Arabic Spanish architecture from the end of the XIII Century).