خلاصه ماشینی:
Probably some of the foundations of this Christian building originally supported the Muslim house of prayer; A subterranean passage which may have served to connect the mosque with the castle towering behind it is still in existence, and inside the cathedral cloisters is a magnificent iron screen, a relic.
Close to the Great Mosque of Al-Ashbimab was the Palace of Administration of Abdu'r-Rahmsn, or Al-]a171:a', / considered by some authorities to be the origin of Alf ama, the present-day designation of a thickly populated district in the immediate vicinity of the cathedral.
To the Walis of Al-Ashbimab is due one of the finest monuments of Arab origin in Portugal, namely the Royal Palace at Sintra, sometimes called "The Alhambra of Portugal," situated about seventeen miles from Lisbon.
High above the palace which they founded towers the fortress, known to this day as Castelo dos M ouros, "Moorish Castle," which acted as watch-tower and defence for the W dlis' beautiful residence situated in what is now the centre of Sintra town.
It is probable that the first King of Portugal, Afonso Henriques, who captured Sintra as well as Lisbon from the Arabs, utilized the Arab masonry to convert the mosque on this site into a church.
Horse-shoe arches, ajimeces or twin windows, ornate wooden ceilings executed by Arab artists for Christian kings, interior courtyards · and gardens with fountains, superb tiles=-all these figure in the palace decorations.