A close to catastrophic fireplace that broke that out on Friday eighth August at Cordoba´s UNESCO – listed mosque-turned-cathedral, ‘La Mezquita’ was contained because of the swift response of town´s firefighters,
The “fast and luxurious intervention” of firefighters “averted a disaster,” mentioned Cordoba´s Mayor Jose Mara Bellido on X.
The fireplace is out, he mentioned, including that firefighters and police would stay on web site in a single day.
Videos broadly circulated on social media confirmed firefighters in motion attempting to include the fireplace in the primary constructing, which attracts round two million guests every year.
‘The monument is saved. There might be no unfold, it is not going to be a disaster, let’s put it that approach,’ mentioned the mayor.
Later, he introduced that the blaze, earlier reported by the fireplace brigade as being underneath management, had been totally extinguished.
The fireplace began at round 9pm, sparking alarm for the early medieval treasure and drawing comparisons to the devastating 2019 blaze at Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral.
According to Spanish media, the supply of the flames was a mechanical sweeping machine that caught fireplace contained in the complicated.
Regarded as a masterpiece of Islamic structure, the location was initially constructed as a mosque – on the stays of an earlier church – between the eighth and tenth centuries underneath Abd ar-Rahman, the Umayyad emir of Córdoba.
Following the Christian reconquest of town within the thirteenth century by King Ferdinand III of Castile, it was transformed right into a cathedral, with important architectural modifications revamped the centuries that adopted.
