Mezquita-Iglesia de El Salvador, Toledo

The Iglesia de El Salvador is a church in Toledo, Spain completed in 1159.

The current church is built on the mosque, so it is oriented southeast in direction toward Mecca.

The Pilaster of El Salvador, shows in one of its faces various Visigothic miraculous scenes from the life of Jesus: the Cure of the Blind, the Resurrection of Lazarus, the Samaritan and the Hemorroísa, as well as other themes of eucharistic hue that alluding to Christ as the salvation.

Although it conserves the shape of the minaret, that carries incrustations of borders, in 1159 it made several Christian modifications, and the construction in the end-15th century of the Gothic chapel of Santa Catalina.

The tower corresponds to the minaret of the mosque, with a Baroque brick addition at the body of the bells.

Facade
The arcade of the former mosque blended in the church; its horseshoe arches rest on 6 reused Roman capitals and one Visigothic pilaster [ 1 ]
The Visigothic decorative reliefs. The faces were scraped by the Muslims. [ 1 ]
A Visighotic relief