User:Astra801/Conversion of mosques into non-Islamic places of worship
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The conversion of mosques into non-Islamic places of worship has occurred for centuries. The most prominent examples of such took place after and during the [[Reconquista]]. '''Outside the Iberian Peninsula, a series of prominent conversions of mosques into churches occurred across various modern imperial contexts, including the Portuguese and Spanish empires in the 16th and 17th centuries and French colonialism in North Africa in the 19th century. In the absence of an official colonial policy, mosque-church conversions were episodic and ranged from building churches on the sites of destroyed mosques to converting functional mosques into churches and, in some strategic cases, cathedrals.''' |
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