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The church of San Jose worth a visit as it is located at the site of the Great Mosque of The Citadel and the minaret architecture belongs to the caliph, the only known in Spain prior to the time Almoravides. This fact with stone slabs and blocks of stone Malaha. This saves the Cristo del Silencio, José de Mora. Most area churches have Albaicín Moorish influences.
This parish was established in place of aljama Murabitin or mosques also called marabouts or hermits, this church is one of the oldest in Granada, was demolished in 1517 to build a Christian church.


of the mosque remains only the minaret tower of the Church today. Located northeast of the temple and very disfigured by the bells that were added by Christians.
At the foot of the tower, and as there was for the Mosque existing Arabic has a cistern. The Christian building was constructed in 1525 by Rodrigo Hernandez, according to the taste of the time (Ojival) and a stone doorway of Sierra Elvira.
Inside, the nave, supported by four arches, the last of them with shield of the Catholic Monarchs and the Archbishop D. Anton de Rojas, is flanked by eight arches that give chapels. On the walls, and within crowns are repeated coats of the founders.
Its Corinthian columns support a sculpture of the crucified style Pablo de Rojas and the reliefs are intercolumnios the Adoration of the Shepherds and the Kings.
In the center of the altarpiece is venerated image of St. Joseph with the Child. On one side of the chapel, looks the picture of the Virgin. Flanking the altar were the statues of San Miguel and San Rafael.

The first of the chapels, right at the foot of the temple corresponds to an old churchyard.
The second of the chapel has a vaulted ceiling and altarpiece is the image of the Virgen de la Aurora, and the sides and statues of St. Crispin and St. Crispiano. The third chapel
kept three altarpieces, the Church of St. Gregory the Betic.
The fourth chapel has a lattice framework and renovated a few years ago, was founded by Dr. Alonso Núñez de Salazar and her forehead lies the wonderful sculpture of the crucified José de Mora.
In the sacristy there, among other paintings, a Madonna and Child, copy similar to that of the Church of San Andres Cano of an original, a painting of St. Nicholas, and a crucifix painted, Gómez Moreno.
Behind the church is the House of the Admiral of Aragon, today Asylum San Jose, built in the s. XVI Leonor Manrique. The Asylum was founded in 1874, Archbishop D. Welcome Monzón, for the education of poor children, was expanded for girls in 1886.
In remains open today, from the process of paying back in 1842 absorbed the churches of San Miguel and San Nicolas from that moment became in temples annexed to San Jose.
Perhaps that is the reason why some works of art as the Christ tied to a column of Siloam say labor to go to the Church of San Jose. In this parish were buried figures such as the sculptor Don Torcuato Ruiz del Peral and painters Don Felipe Gómez de Valencia and Don Miguel Pérez de Aibar.
The dimensions of the church is 26 meters long and 21 meters wide but 10 feet square to the chapel and the choir.
In this church was the seat of the brotherhood of carpenters in the year 1528 met on the last Sunday of the year. Granada

November 2009