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.
On the third day of his pastoral visit to Turkey, Pope Benedict XVI visited the historic Cathedral-turned-museum Hagia Sofia, one of the most important symbols of the country, as well as the Blue ...
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 ...
Türkiye’s Communications Directorate on Saturday unveiled two books on Istanbul's Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque, a day ahead of the 2nd anniversary of its reopening to worship. The books detail ...
ISTANBUL (AP) — In its more than 1,400-year existence, the majestic domed structure of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul has served as the Byzantine Empire’s main cathedral, a mosque under the Ottoman Empire ...
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 ...
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