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Islamic Clergy Call for Prayer at Hagia Sophia in Constantinople to Appease the Coronavirus
Orthodox Times ^
| 5/4/20
Posted on 05/04/2020 5:34:20 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: BillyBoy
It's true it hasn't been reconsecrated as a church since the Islamofacists conquered Turkey, but it DID change religious denominations and was briefly re-consecrated as a Roman Catholic Cathedral from 1204–1261, during the crusades. The Byzantines got it back and turned it back into an Eastern Orthodox cathedral (at least until 1453 when Constantinople fell to the Muslims), but they're still bitter about the Catholic takeover in the 1200s to this day.This is very interesting! Thanks for sharing this information with me.
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