The Cathedral of Cordoba is owned by the Catholic Church, say lawyers – Aica On line

Madrid (Spain) (AICA): about 800 years ago, after the expulsion of Muslims, the mosque of Cordoba became Catholic cathedral. Now, leftist parties and Muslim refugees sectors in Spain, intended to take her from the church and turn it into a mosque. After the failure of other attempts, political groups left the municipality of Córdoba now claim that being a unique and exceptional monument is “public supradominio”, ie, that belongs to all citizens of the world and thus, his opinion, would not belong to the Church.

800 years ago, after the expulsion of Muslims from Spain, the mosque of Cordoba became Catholic cathedral. Now, leftist parties and Muslim refugees sectors in Spain, try to take it from the Church and return to turn it into a mosque.

After the failure of other attempts, now the political groups left the municipality of Córdoba claim that being a unique and exceptional monument is “public supradominio”, ie, that belongs to all citizens of the world and so, in his opinion, would not belong to the Church.

However, Mercedes Mayo, head of the Legal Department of the City of Cordoba, issued a report which stated that “the city of Córdoba has no legal possibility of registering your name Mosque-Cathedral “since the property is already registered in the name of the Catholic Church in the land registry.

From the legal department of the City of Córdoba itself confirmed that the report in which the ownership of the Catholic Church refused temple, was invalid.

The Cathedral of Santa María de Córdoba, declared World Heritage by UNESCO in 1984, it is owned by the Catholic Church since 1236, almost 800 years ago.

Sources Chapter of the Cathedral of Cordoba explained to CNA that repeatedly over the years contributed countless documents and arguments demonstrating that the property of the Mosque of Cordoba belongs to the Catholic Church.

“Many historical and legal arguments which the council has provided were ratified later and used by other experts to prove ownership of the temple by the Church”.

This time was not the Cabildo “but agents external to us, as lawyers and other experts, who ratified the ownership of the cathedral by the Church,” they said and assured ACI that by keeping this debate alive “nonexistent in the reality of the Cordovan society, a negative image of the city of Cordoba and the temple is generated”.

There is no legal basis to intervene ownership of the cathedral of Cordoba

Meanwhile the European Commission rejected calls MEPs PSOE, Podemos and Izquierda Unida to rule on the ownership of the Cathedral of Cordoba and further states that there is “no legal basis to intervene.”

Leftist MEPs asked the Commission to its intervention in a letter which contained serious allegations against the Church without any evidence and that had previously been rejected both by law and by the Spanish authorities.

According to them in the council of the Cordovan cathedral, the European institution responded “forcefully to these issues even in writing, it says there is no legal basis to intervene, nor has jurisdiction in the matter by referring to national legislation on issues relating to ownership of the temple. ”

Earlier, the Spanish Ministry of Finance had already noted in 2014 that the church was the owner of the Cathedral of Cordoba and did not appear that the temple had been owned by the state.

After the answers given by the European Commission, the Ministry of Finance in 2014 and for justice around the ownership of the monument, the Cathedral Chapter of Cordoba hopes that an end to this controversial campaign artificially fed by different political groups and by certain Muslim sectors. +