[WOSG]

Maybe they didn't have enough mosques around, after they all had to flee north for their lives."

The alternative was to build down the street from the church.

"There are many mosques in Turkey which at one point in time were temples to Apollo or Venus, whatever."

Funny you dont mention that the great Hagia Sophia was also turned into a Mosque during the Ottoman period after a millenium as a Christian Cathedral.

Muslims have done this to other religions from the first instant - turning the pagan Meccan shrine into Islam's holiest center, then Jerusalem building a dome on the old Jewish temple, etc.

[a_Turk]

Christians have done the same. Big deal. You poor babies.. "How dare they do that to us.. Don't they know we're Christians? Waaah."

[Valin]

Funny you dont mention that the great Hagia Sophia was also turned into a Mosque during the Ottoman period after a millenium as a Christian Cathedral.

And they might not have been able to do that if not for the (Christian) crusaders of sacked the city in 1204.