A dispenser of iced lemonade sits invitingly by the door of the newly whitewashed building - hospitality for summer visitors coming to the first mosque built in Granada in over 500 years.īut looming over the freshly planted garden, seeming to quiver in the furnacelike heat, is another image: the Alhambra, a 14th-century Muslim fortress of red-tinted stone that is everything this mosque is not: ancient, battle-scarred, monumental.
