[Illustration: PLATE LXXXV. Details of the front of the Mosque in the Harem.] [Illustration: PLATE LXXXVI. Details of the upper part of “Lindaraja’s” Balcony.] [Illustration: FAÇADE OF THE MOSQUE.] [Illustration: ELEVATION OF PORTICO ADJACENT TO THE MOSQUE.] [Illustration: DETAILS OF ORNAMENT OF KORÁN RECESS NEAR THE ENTRANCE-DOOR OF THE MOSQUE.] [Illustration: DETAILS OF ORNAMENT IN THE COURT OF THE MOSQUE.] [Illustration: DETAILS IN THE COURT OF THE MOSQUE, EASTERN FAÇADE.] [Illustration: AN ARCHED WINDOW OF THE MOSQUE.] [Illustration: AN ARCHED WINDOW OF THE MOSQUE.] [Illustration: INTERIOR OF THE MOSQUE.] [Illustration: INTERIOR OF THE MOSQUE.] [Illustration: THE MOSQUE, FROM KORÁN RECESS.] [Illustration: ARAB LAMP IN THE MOSQUE.] Philip the Second built to amuse the wretched child, Don Carlos. Also a vaulted cellar, where some rude sculpture has been immured by the prudish monks. PATIO DE LA MEZQUITA--COURT OF THE MOSQUE. The exquisite façade of this Court is much disfigured by a modern gallery. From the portions which remain, however, the general design may be traced with tolerable certainty. The inscriptions are few and unimportant, consisting, for the most part, of the constantly-recurring motto: “There is no Conqueror but God,” and some verses from the Koran. The grand Mosque of the Alhambra was built in 1308 by Mohammed III., and was in good preservation until the occupation of the French, who, says Don Pascual de Gayángos, entirely destroyed it. It has been thus described by _Ibnu-l-Khattíb_, the Grand Wizír of Yúsuf I.: “It is ornamented with Mosaic work, and exquisite tracery of the most beautiful and intricate patterns, intermixed with silver flowers and graceful arches, supported by innumerable pillars of polished marble; indeed, what with the solidity of the structure, which the Sultán inspected in person, the elegance of the design, and the beauty of the proportions, the building has not its like in this country; and I have frequently heard our best architects say that they had never seen or heard of a building which can be compared to it.” LA MEZQUITA--THE MOSQUE.