GranadaPrayer Times in Granada, Andalucia

Granada was the capital of the Nasrid emirate from 1238 to 1492 — the last independent Muslim polity in al-Andalus and the final flowering of Andalusi Islamic civilization before the Christian conquest by Ferdinand and Isabella. The Alhambra palace-fortress, built and extended throughout the fourteenth century under sultans Yusuf I and Muhammad V, is among the most refined surviving examples of medieval Islamic palatial architecture, with its honeycombed muqarnas vaults, calligraphic friezes, and the Court of the Lions. The adjoining Generalife gardens and the Albaicín quarter — once the dense Muslim residential city facing the Alhambra across the Darro — preserve the urban fabric of Nasrid Granada. Although the historic Muslim population was expelled or forcibly converted after 1492, contemporary Granada has a renewed Muslim community, including the Albaicín's Mezquita Mayor of 2003, and remains a destination of historical pilgrimage and reflection for Muslims from many countries.