Jews were allowed to pray at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, another contested city.
The protests come amid increasing demands by religious Jews to be allowed to pray there.
They say that government officials who are Muslims should also be allowed to pray".
Sixth form pupils are allowed to pray offsite and use the town's House of Resurrection monastery to pray.
They will also be allowed to pray and receive visits from the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Since then, only Muslims have been allowed to pray at the main compound, while Jews have been directed to pray at the Western Wall.
Each is given a copy of the Koran and is allowed to pray five times a day, led by an "imam" elected by the detainees themselves.
Córdoba's renaissance cathedral sits in the centre of an ancient mosque complex, and local Muslims want to be allowed to pray there again.
In December 2007, he escaped from police guards in Pakistan by slipping out of the back door of a mosque he had been allowed to pray in.
She said he had been allowed to pray, unlike the previous detainees who returned from Guantánamo and he had been given halal food.
Could he envision, I asked, a day in which the Muslims acceded to Jewish demands to at least be allowed to pray on the Temple Mount?
