Cordoba House

Cordoba House was a proposed Islamic community center and mosque near Ground Zero in New York City, deliberately named to evoke the historical Cordoba caliphate’s model of Muslim-Christian-Jewish coexistence. It became highly controversial and was politicized into a symbol of cultural invasion by opponents.

Claims that use this term

• Cordoba House was deliberately named after a model of Muslim-Christian-Jewish coexistence.
• Orchestrated talking points transformed Cordoba House into an invasion symbol