Christian writers read mosque conversion of churches as deliberate profanation

Evidence

With this general attitude we must associate the very lively resentment that was felt for the loss of church buildings used as mosques, during the lifetimes of the writers who speak of it. Mark of Toledo connected the original loss of provinces with this theme: at the Arab Conquest of Spain, where ‘formerly many priests offered the divine obsequy to God, now villainous men devoted supplications to the execrable Muhammad, and churches which had once been consecrated by the hands of bishops were now reduced to profane temples’. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 628

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Relevant to the reader’s ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ cluster only loosely — richer resonance with the vault’s constitutive-outside thread: sacred space claimed and defiled.