Posted on 01/23/2017 7:03:21 PM PST by marshmallow
An ancient Trebizond church of Agia Sophia, built between 1238 and 1263 and defiled by being converted into a mosque in 1461, is now set to undergo a restoration project worth about 2 million Turkish liras (about $530,000).
The building, regarded as an exemplary piece of Byzantine architecture, located in northeastern Turkey, served as a museum for fifty-two years before being opened to worship again in 2013. The new project plans to continue prior measures taken to conceal the church’s Orthodox Christian frescos from the eyes of Muslims, who, despite their dogmatic opposition to it, have chosen to worship in a Christian temple filled with iconography, reports Daily Sabah.
Currently the iconography is being covered with curtains “to create rooms for prayers,” while the new project proposes a more technological solution.
The dome and walls in the northern part of the tourist attraction will be covered with special transparent screening system, which will cover the depictions of Christ, the Mother of God, and the saints with an electrical film which will turn opaque at the push of a button, allowing the praying Muslims to imagine they are not in a Christian building.
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Muslims just seem to love taking over old Christian churches. Can’t quite figure it out. I guess its the domination and conquest thing. kind of like rape isn’t really about sex.
in every country they go into after gaining control they start converting the temple to there purpose. originally Mecca was a center of worship for a pagan deity moloch.
Still is....they just changed the name to allah
>built between 1238 and 1263 and defiled by being converted into a mosque in 1461
Bomb it and repeat anytime a filthy islamo gets near it. islam is nothing but pure evil.
“Muslims just seem to love taking over old Christian churches. Can’t quite figure it out. I guess its the domination and conquest thing. kind of like rape isn’t really about sex.”
Yep, domination - and it’s cheaper than building your own. And think about it, for most of their history Muslims struggled to build much that was truly worthwhile. I don’t think it’s an accident that their greatest buildings were always in conquered territories - meaning buildings they stole or built with Christians doing the real work.
Muslim “architecture” — copied from Orthodox Byzantine architecture
Muslim “chant” — copied from Orthodox Byzantine chant
It’s all about taking over, whitewashing, tricking the ignorant.
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