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Mudejar Chapel of San Bartolome
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| SCHEDULE | From June 15 to August 31: Tuesday to Sunday: 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. From September 1 to June 14: Monday to Saturday: 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Sundays: 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. |
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Other nearby points of interest are the Bullfighting Museum, the Synagogue and the Royal Stables.
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Theexternal access to the chapel is through a triple entrance porch that connects with the single rectangular nave< /strong> of the temple covered by ribbed vaults. This construction was carried out based onsandstone ashlars arranged with rope and firebrand and reusing previous materials such as Roman and Islamic shafts and capitals. The interior highlights the presbytery elevated by a step and the profuse decoration that floods the entire Mudejar oratory with the characteristic Umayyad repertoire in plasterwork, atauriques , geometric figures and inscriptions with Kufic and Nasjí epigraphy that allude to the Muslim religion, we can read for example "Eternity for Allah, Glory for Allah" which were used exclusively with cará decorative character since let's not forget that we are in a Christian temple. In addition, in the lower area there is a beautiful plinth tiled with beautiful blue tones and on the upper mural paintings that allude to the patrons of the city, Santa Victoria, San Acisclo and the Order of Santiago.
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The chapel of San Bartolome nation as a consequence of the anti-Semitic revolts that occurred in numerous Spanish Jewish quarters in the year 1391 since when they were forcibly deprived of their religious spaces by On the part of the authorities, chapels began to proliferate instead of synagogues with the aim of repopulating the neighborhood with new Christians and putting an end to the city's Jewish minorities. . This space was founded at the end of the 14th century by a Jewish convert named Diego Fernández Abenconde who worked as emissary of King Ferdinand I of Aragon, which is why he could be influenced by the decorative style that he found there. during his numerous trips to the Nasrid Kingdom and that remained captured in this beautiful Mudejar oratory.
The chapel was entrusted to the Order of Santiago and was in operation until well into the 17th century but a century later, after the construction n of the Cardenal Salazar Hospital, it was left annexed to said building, current Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Córdoba. Nowadays, if we want to visit this small oratory we can do so in two ways, accessing it from the Faculty or directly from the street as was done in the past. Since 1931 the Chapel of San Bartolome It is considered Asset of Cultural Interest.
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