Posted on 06/28/2017 6:56:00 PM PDT by marshmallow
As the time for afternoon prayers approaches, Onder Soy puts on a white robe and cap and switches on the microphone in a small 19th century room adjoining the Hagia Sophia.
Soon, Soy’s melodic call to prayer rings out over a square filled with tourists hurrying to visit some of Turkey’s most famous historical sights before they close for the day.
The room Soy is in — built as a resting place for the sultan and now officially called the Hagia Sophia mosque — fills up with around 40 worshipers, drawn not by the modestly decorated space itself, but by the ancient building it shares a wall with.
Built by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I in AD 537, the Hagia Sophia was originally a Greek Orthodox basilica and one of the most important churches in all of Christendom. It became a mosque in 1453 after the Ottoman Empire defeated the Byzantines and took over Constantinople.
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Liberate Constantinople ! The Hagia Sophia will always be a church !
I’d rather see it destroyed.
LA TIMES once again sucking up to the Muslims...
Despicable....
The Pope should be paying attention. But of course he’s off on one of his communist tangents.
It was a Christian church first, then a mosque. If anything it should be turned back into a Christian church.
When Americans finally get enough of the BS and hell breaks loose, the LA TIMES, WAPO, and Democrats are going to claim, “We were with you guys all along...”
Correct, but from the article:
“For us, 1453 was a symbol of Islam winning over Christianity,” said Celik. “Now, for those who want to keep the Hagia Sophia a museum — I think a very small number of people — it’s a symbol of secularism winning over Islam. But Turkey has changed, and they are out of touch with it.”
The status quo was a very good compromise that has lasted for years. Changing it will be like waving a red flag in front of a bull.
I hope.
The next serious earthquake will take it down sadly. It is under designed for the region.
ping
Seems to me that the Left, such as the LATimes, should reward Israel the same way for all of its firsts in regards to Islam.
How about from a museum to the Catholic Church it once was?
Thanks
It is under designed for the region.
“How about from a museum to the Catholic Church it once was?”
It was never a Catholic Church. It was Eastern Orthodox
More islam filth doing what islam filth does best.
Fake News
Whose voices grow louder?
How were they objectively enumerated?
Rather see it destroyed
Let’s not, did not like it when the Taliban did it to Buddahs, when Isis does it to a church, or the mayor of New Orleans with General Lee, let us not join that crew.
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