{"id":20060,"date":"2017-02-24T08:57:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T08:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mezquitadesevilla.com\/letter-to-mr-mr-juan-ignacio-zoido-alvarez-mayor-of-seville-12-february-2015\/"},"modified":"2017-02-24T08:57:41","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T08:57:41","slug":"letter-to-mr-mr-juan-ignacio-zoido-alvarez-mayor-of-seville-12-february-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mezquitadesevilla.com\/en\/letter-to-mr-mr-juan-ignacio-zoido-alvarez-mayor-of-seville-12-february-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to Mr.\nMr. Juan Ignacio Zoido \u00c1lvarez, Mayor of Seville, 12 February 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Att. <\/strong>Juan Ignacio Zoido \u00c1lvarez<\/strong>. <\/strong> His Excellency.
\nMr.
\nMayor.
\nPresident of the Hon.
\nSeville City Council. <\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Seville, February 12, 2015<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/u><\/strong>Subject: “Islamic Cultural Centre of Seville”<\/u><\/strong> It has been a year since the governing board of the Seville Mosque Foundation was renewed, and with it the intention of providing the city with a space that meets the needs of the Muslim population.
\nWe would like to briefly introduce you to the guidelines of the new project we are working on and its foundations.
\nIn this new moment, Muslims, residents of Seville, want our city to shine as it has done throughout its history, containing a building that stands out for its beauty and elegance.
\nA space for relationship that takes Islam and Muslims out of the ground and in the locals, and where Islam can be appreciated for its reality and its light.
\nThat is why we have conceived our project for the Islamic Cultural Centre of Seville<\/strong> as the best way of relating to the city, our human, historical and institutional environment.
\nA city that has inherited a great heritage of Islam in richness and representation over time.
\nWe believe in a civilizing, dynamic and living Islam, such as the one that spread from East to West, which was not exclusive of cultures, but was a vehicle for relations between areas as far away as Indonesia and the Maghreb.
\nAn Islam totally against any radical and extremist position.
\nThe framework that inspires our project is the Imaret<\/em>, which was traditionally conceived as containing spaces for teaching, for health, a library and study rooms, a community dining room, a spiritual center and a mosque.
\nAs an element that is a creative pattern of culture and civilization.
\nA space open in services and activities to all the residents of Seville.
\nAt the same time, we understand that in order to attract a new source of wealth to the city, it must contain a business and investment center and a tourist office that relate the values of Seville with all the traditional lands of Islam.
\nWith the success of this project, God willing, our contribution will enrich the city in all the aforementioned aspects and we will be able to glimpse a horizon that establishes a relationship with Islam beyond the strict religious framework that is being imposed on it, so that the city, its inhabitants and institutions, understand that this project responds to a citizen need that formulates it to enrich coexistence and social development.
\nWe remain at your entire disposal in what you and the Hon.
\nSeville City Council requires our Foundation.
\nBest regards, Luis Hern\u00e1ndez Mart\u00ednez Vice President \"\" \"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Att. Juan Ignacio Zoido \u00c1lvarez. His Excellency. Mr. Mayor. President of the Hon. Seville City Council. Seville, February 12, 2015 Subject: “Islamic Cultural Centre of Seville” It has been a year since the governing board of the Seville Mosque Foundation was renewed, and with it the intention of providing the city with a space that …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-comunicados-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mezquitadesevilla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/zois.jpg?fit=644%2C347&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mezquitadesevilla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mezquitadesevilla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mezquitadesevilla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mezquitadesevilla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mezquitadesevilla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mezquitadesevilla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mezquitadesevilla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mezquitadesevilla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mezquitadesevilla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mezquitadesevilla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}