It was made into a mosque in 1453. A bit late to get outraged...
Not in the least. We have never forgotten and we never will. As I wrote the other day, by God’s grace, Constantinople will be liberated in my lifetime by Orthodox Russian troops and I’ll be at Agia Sophia to participate in the continuation of the Divine Liturgy cut off by the Mohammedan dog Suleiman and his rapist curs on Tuesday, May 29. 1453!
You are right!!!!
And—sooner than we think—EVERY statue of clinton will be toppled in Kosovo, and beautiful Serbian Orthodox Temples will rise again, as Orthodox Serbs restore the agriculture and industry that was destroyed by the Albanian savages and their “Western” backers!!!!
Ramadan Phooey!!!!
With apologies, of course, to actual canines ...
It stopped being a mosque in 1931. Ataturk (the best guy to happen to Turkey since Paul) turned it into a secular museum in 1935.
I took my five teenage kids to Istanbul this spring. As we looked at numerous buildings from Roman and Byzantine times that had been converted to Islamic or Ottoman uses I drilled home the most important lesson a Westerner can learn from visiting the once great and once Christian nation of Turkey. “Don’t lose wars.” It’s a lesson Western Europe really needs to learn from quickly.
Like the Russian “orthodox” troops who recently “liberated” Crimea? Bunch of communist goons is what they are.