were times of change. The transition progressed while teaching us how to live in freedom, to respect ideologies and creeds. To strengthen the democratic reserve a flurry of laws passed under the Constitution with the difficulties arising from political and social heritage. One of them was significant, the Religious Freedom 1980, which gave legal cover to the various religions. in Marbella in 1979, the then Prince Fahd of Saudi Arabia announced it would donate two million dollars for the construction of social housing. Incosol locked in and had decided to build a residence, also funded the building of a mosque and a cultural center or house of the English-Islamic culture. It was a strong bet, surprising, full of petrodollars from the Middle East, an unknown market for a Spain which was still suffering the aftermath of the traumatic crisis of 73 and that our city is primed with special virulence in the field of construction and hospitality. Dozens of cranes and skeletons showed a bleak landscape, a graveyard of iron and concrete, which prescribed the luster of new developments, which came into fashion an exotic cocktail of Arabs in front, while we we surrounded the fortresses, Alhambra, Generalife , al-Andalus, sparkling domes, turrets and gold decorative colorful lush, so lavish that it dazzles the eye.
Until then the Islamic world could not see beyond the call of Franco default, the Green March and Emilio Moro, as anecdotal as any surface. But our little world of official reports Angelus at noon and declined, at the same time began to go international markets. The Moor, the dreaded in the bowels of the tradition, moved in Aladdin of treasures, luxury and ostentation, tourist version. A Mustafa of harems and palaces that had left the stories to stroll around Puerto Banus. Frotábamos One Nights and currency flowed. Building a mosque is not supposed obstacle to such good customers. Was estimated at seven billion pesetas in Marbella real estate investment of Arab capital in 1980.
Muslim temple was first built in Spain after a long hiatus. Emblematic, symbolic, gleaming white and graceful in hill to be seen and heard. It was built in just over six months, there were no technical barriers, neighborhood and there was no resistance except for some rude comment reactionary not compromised in the transition, marbellense accepted it with curiosity and admiration, for this passivity as mundane, forged by blow intercultural experiences. The Muslim not getting access to the interior looked gallons, his feat was considered almost a heroism in such a secretive and strange religion.
The national press followed the process every day. The inauguration was a national event and an act of international diplomacy, was in August 1981, the project was signed by Juan Mora Urbano and the result was a splendid building, so good that chose the prestigious Agha Khan Foundation. There was dispute over authorship. An article published on ABC in November 1981 the project attributed Angel Taborda Britches, days after Juan Mora called rectification. I recall that the case ended in court, without knowing more details.
Muslim temple was first built in Spain after a long hiatus. Emblematic, symbolic, gleaming white and graceful in hill to be seen and heard. It was built in just over six months, there were no technical barriers, neighborhood and there was no resistance except for some rude comment reactionary not compromised in the transition, marbellense accepted it with curiosity and admiration, for this passivity as mundane, forged by blow intercultural experiences. The Muslim not getting access to the interior looked gallons, his feat was considered almost a heroism in such a secretive and strange religion.
The national press followed the process every day. The inauguration was a national event and an act of international diplomacy, was in August 1981, the project was signed by Juan Mora Urbano and the result was a splendid building, so good that chose the prestigious Agha Khan Foundation. There was dispute over authorship. An article published on ABC in November 1981 the project attributed Angel Taborda Britches, days after Juan Mora called rectification. I recall that the case ended in court, without knowing more details.
The next year will celebrate the thirty uneventful. Several thousand Muslims living on the coast. Following on from Marbella Fuengirola Mosque opened, years later in Malaga. Example and we were pioneers. In all these years there has been no religious conflict, respect has governed as if the spirit of harmony and freedom advocated by the draft Constitution had in Marbella better than elsewhere. They say it is the mosque of the rich, but Bashar Imam Ali, friendly person, close and simple knows is not true, because it is a temple open to all Muslims. Access is leisurely, the atmosphere intimate, friendly atmosphere. The central dome you clothes, give human scale columns, the light sifting spirit.
occasionally startle us news about controversies on account of the construction of mosques throughout the world. The last in the World Financial Center, New York, the city where you have to give a bell to stop investors moving their money and they all play the palms like crazy while statistics estimate 925 million poor in the world. Before it was in Seville, Lerida, with minarets in Switzerland and in many other places where the construction of a mosque is perceived as a threat, but are not the cause of religious conflict but the people who pervert, as those who misinterpret and distort government ideologies.
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