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To: marshmallow
Hagia Sophia, Christian church that was conquered, appropriated, and redesignated as a mosque, reconquered and restored by Christians, then reconquered again by Muslims. Is that right?

Now Muslims are praying and sacrificing to a virus in the name of their pagan deity?

Sounds like the Abomination of Desolation, one of the signs of the Rapture, doesn't it?

And no, I'm not a Biblical scholar or anything.

7 posted on 05/04/2020 5:55:41 PM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: ZOOKER
Hagia Sophia, Christian church that was conquered, appropriated, and redesignated as a mosque, reconquered and restored by Christians, then reconquered again by Muslims. Is that right?

Not quite: it was a cathedral, then a mosque, and now a museum. The cathedral was completed in 537, served as the head of the Orthodox Church of the Byzantine Empire until the fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the Ottomans. At which point it was converted to a mosque. It became a museum by order of the founder of modern Turkey, Ataturk. It was part of his overall program of modernization and secularization of Turkey.

So, no, it has never been reconsecrated as a church since the Ottoman takeover in 1453.

9 posted on 05/04/2020 6:14:27 PM PDT by Jack Black
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