Church Of San Salvador (Granada)
The Church of San Salvador (), also known as the Church of El Salvador or Collegiate Church of San Salvador, is a church and historic monument in Granada, Spain. The church is located in the historic Albaicín neighbourhood, at ''Plaza del Salvador'' (off ''Cuesta del Chapiz'' street). It was built in the 16th century on the site of the neighbourhood's former main mosque and incorporates some of its remains. History Prior to the current church, the site was occupied by the Great Mosque of the Albaicin (). The mosque was built in the 13th century under Almohad Caliphate, Almohad rule. Only its courtyard (''sahn''), with Arcade (architecture), arcades of horseshoe arches, has been preserved today as part of the church. The mosque originally covered a total area measuring 42.4 by 32.2 metres. Its prayer hall, now disappeared, had a hypostyle form similar to the city's larger Great Mosque on the site of the current Granada Cathedral, Cathedral. It had 9 Aisle, aisles divided by row ...
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Bell Tower
A bell tower is a tower that contains one or more bells, or that is designed to hold bells even if it has none. Such a tower commonly serves as part of a Christian church, and will contain church bells, but there are also many secular bell towers, often part of a municipal building, an educational establishment, or a tower built specifically to house a carillon. Church bell towers often incorporate clocks, and secular towers usually do, as a public service. The term campanile (, also , ), deriving from the Italian ''campanile'', which in turn derives from ''campana'', meaning "bell", is synonymous with ''bell tower''; though in English usage campanile tends to be used to refer to a free standing bell tower. A bell tower may also in some traditions be called a belfry, though this term may also refer specifically to the substructure that houses the bells and the ringers rather than the complete tower. The tallest free-standing bell tower in the world, high, is the Mortegliano B ...
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