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Some storys of Ibn Idari (XIII – XIV Century) and to the – Maggari (XVII Century) tell that the Muslim, after their occupation, adopted the same position of the Mosque is Damascus (Syria) in the past.
This means that they expropiated to the christians half of the churches they had.
Ibn Idari tells that it was situated in the “Medina of Córdoba” and its name was “Sant Binyant” or the same things, San Vicente.
Even though this fact wasn’t believed during many years, till Don Félix Hernández Giménez run an excavation under the primitive Mosque built by Abd al-Rahman I, set up between 1931-and 1936.
We have to think in “Saint Vincent” as an Episcopal Site with a lot of civil and religious buildings, and the Palace of the Governor, so, Saint Vincent is a great group of functional buildings. 
Under the, room of prays of the Primitive Mosque Don Félix Hernández found out the rests of different buildings belonging to ancient Episcopal Site discovering a general destruction, pulling down whose materials have been used for the new Mosque Alhama of the city.
Between the fourth and fifth nave of the Primitive Mosque he discovered different walls that formed a rectangular space, oriented from North to South, in which its walls were thick and the roman patchwork appeared.
It’s believed that these structures belonged to a paleochristian Cathedral of the VIth century.
Towards North, between the second and the third nave Northeast-Southeast, a rectangular room was discovered that linked with the central nave in a hypothetical Cathedral building of three naves.
Inside of the walls a niche was discovered, it has a half circular plan. In the South, it was discovered another structure whose characteristic was a head of the church of 5 meters of diameter. The building had a rectangular swimming-pool, it seemed to a Palaeochristian water pool and possible it was used as Christian Baptismal font. 
These rests found out by archaeologist Don Félix Hernández are now shown in the Saint Vincent Museum, situated on the south-east corner of the oratory. You can contemplate a piece of the paleochristian sarcophagus that was at the bottom of one of the columns of the primitive Mosque. This gives us an idea of they way the muslim used materials of the ancient Paleochristian church.
Even useless things ended for being used; the fragment of a wainscot that represents evangelical scenes was used and its date is in 330 and 335 A.C.
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