Far-Right Party Vox Opposes Conversion of Seville Building into Central Mosque

"The Muslim community of Seville already has mosques where it expresses its faith without any difficulty," said Cristina Peláez, the municipal spokesperson for Vox, thus rejecting the request of the Islamic community of the Ishbilia mosque to transform the pavilion, with its attractive tower similar to a minaret, into a "central mosque".

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"The spaces that belong to the city council must be used to promote and defend our culture. We do not need the city council to abandon municipal buildings for a religion that underestimates, represses and wants women to be submissive and persecuted," she added, calling for the "outright rejection" of the request.

The Islamic community of the Ishbilia mosque had initiated a project to build a mosque in Seville East that could not materialize because the Seville city council, then led by the socialist Juan Espadas, ultimately did not grant the requested land.