The building of the Synagogue in Cordoba (Spain)
The Building
The Synagogue is at 20, in Judíos Street, in the middle of the Jewish Quarter, in the
historic city. Nearby you can find, the Zoco, place where you can find the handcraft shops.
The building suffered different modifications but its original shape is conserved. In fact numerous inscriptions, arches and plasterwork have been found between the building and the wall. 
The entrance is from the Judíos Street, through a little court, and through a roman arch. Once inside, we find a little hall with rectangular plan; in the oriental part we find a stair through which you get the Women Tribune. Then we entry in he oratory, with 7 m each side, and a shouldered door.
In the South Wall, the Tribune Wall of the Women, three big windows are open, the lateral are roman archs, whereas the central one is shouldered and decorated with plaster. The three
walls are decorated with rectangular frames with jewish legends and the inscriptions were gold on white and embodied on a blue background. On this there is a decorated board with no comprehensive inscriptions. Crowning the wall there are five light holes all with roman archs.
In the Oriental Wall there is a little room of 2,8 meters of width. The entrance is shouldered with a blind roman arch. Inside there are two little cupboards where the sacred rolls
of law were conserved, such as the Torah. The roman arch is framed by an alfiz, very decorated, and by each side there are two big boards with geometrical decorations and they had inscriptions, lost its majority.
The North Wall is the best preserved in the present, covered by a rich decoration of plasterwork. Very similar to the South Wall, it has five Roman archs, providing natural light to the room, and covered by a gypsum ceiling. Just below a horizontally extending strip which is flanked by small marbles with inscriptions. Under this there are three blind archs, the lateral one, roman, and the central
one shouldered, as in the south wall. The skirting board and the rest of the sides of the room are not conserved.
The Occidental Wall has a little niche inside, in which, presumably, would be the Rabbi's pulpit. This one is covered by a lobulated arch, suspended on corbels. It is framed into an Alfiz, very decorated. Above it there is a little wainscot with an incomplete inscription from The Songs of the Songs. In the last restoration a red and black cross was found in the wall that is inside the arch, which certainly date from the days when the building was the hospital functions.
Text: J.A.S.C.
Traslated by Sara Moretti