Hagia Sofia officially re-opened Friday as a mosque after serving as a holy place of both Christianity and Islam before becoming a museum Hagia Sofia was officially opened as a mosque with Friday ...
The reading transmitted by state TV. Groups tied to Bulent Arinc, former vice president, and the brotherhood of the Naxbantiya, to which Erdogan belongs, want to reopen the basilica as a mosque.
If the Turks had not protected Hagia Sofia, it would have fallen a long time ago, a Greek Orthodox priest said. Evangelos Papanikolaou, the priest at Analipseos Church in Rafina near Athens, said in a ...
Turkiets högsta domstol berövar många miljoner kulturälskare möjligheten att besöka Hagia Sofia som museum. Nu måste alla ta av sig skorna och gå in till moskén Hagia Sofia. Beslutet går mot Unescos ...
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ISTANBUL, Turkey — While Turkey’s president has made moves to close the museum at the former Christian basilica Hagia Sophia and revert it to a mosque, the Patriarch of Constantinople has said the ...
If the Turks had not protected Hagia Sofia, it would have fallen a long time ago, a Greek Orthodox priest said. Evangelos Papanikolaou, the priest at Analipseos Church in Rafina near Athens, said in a ...