Wholeheartedly agree! It really needs a modern restoration and conservation effort, but that won’t happen in Moslem Turkey.
Strange as it sounds I think it's more likely to happen with the present government than with the past "secular" administrations. These guys have really proved to be modernizers and very much want in the EU, which encourages historic preservation.
“Wholeheartedly agree! It really needs a modern restoration and conservation effort, but that won’t happen in Moslem Turkey.”
I was there a few years ago. It’s an incredible site. It really did need restoration, but I thought I heard not too long ago that they had started to restore it.
It is being restored. They’ve been working on restoration of the dome for several years actually, which is why you see a huge amount of scaffolding going up to the dome when you walk in. (Was there just this past May)
Wow. You are bigoted too!