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Haghia Sophia was lucky in a sense---it survived. Many thousands of churches that once dotted the landscape of Asia minor did not - including this heartbreaking destruction - the Church of the Dormition in Nicaea - which was destroyed by the Turks in 1922 - destroyed utterly and deliberately by the vandal Turks:
Nothing left-- this is a photo of it in the late 1900s - it was destroyed in 1922 - just about when Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and Lenin were combining their forces of darkness to destroy Christianity