Posted on 05/04/2020 5:34:20 PM PDT by marshmallow
The chairman of the Religious and Foundation Employees’ Union (Diyanet Bir-Sen), Hasan Türüt, has called on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to allow a Muslim prayer to be performed in Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, following the lifting of the ban due to the coronavirus pandemic.
According to Turkish media reports, Türüt said that the first Friday after the coronavirus pandemic the Muslim prayer should be performed in Hagia Sophia, as Mehmed the Conqueror did on the first Friday after the Fall of Constantinople.
“Hagia Sophia is the means to bring about the resurrection of the world. We must all show together – with the first prayer in Hagia Sophia – that Turkey is not the old Turkey,” highlighted Bir-Sen Chairman, saying that nothing would be the same in the post-coronavirus world.
He called for a prayer to Allah in the Hagia Sophia to appease evil, saying there was a “curse” of Mehmed the Conqueror for those who would try to declassify Hagia Sophia from mosques.
“When Mehmed II conquered Constantinople in 1453, the first Friday after the Fall he prayed in Hagia Sophia, turning it into a mosque after 916 years. Mehmed II, according to some Ottoman writings, is said to have said:
‘May the curse of Allah, the angels and all human beings be upon anyone who changes even one of the conditions governing this foundation!’
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Yeah, that’ll help /s/
Any chance the Russians are still interested in changing Istanbul back into Constantinople?
One day, one day…patience
No, you can’t go back to Constantinople.
Islam has always been about conquest and slavery.
Now Muslims are praying and sacrificing to a virus in the name of their pagan deity?
Sounds like the Abomination of Desolation, one of the signs of the Rapture, doesn't it?
And no, I'm not a Biblical scholar or anything.
Hagia Sophia once again needs to become a Christian center.
Not quite: it was a cathedral, then a mosque, and now a museum. The cathedral was completed in 537, served as the head of the Orthodox Church of the Byzantine Empire until the fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the Ottomans. At which point it was converted to a mosque. It became a museum by order of the founder of modern Turkey, Ataturk. It was part of his overall program of modernization and secularization of Turkey.
So, no, it has never been reconsecrated as a church since the Ottoman takeover in 1453.
It's what should be done with the whole Temple Mount in Isreal in my opinion, turned into a giant museum. The Dome, the mosque, the entire area that the Muz are holding onto as "theirs" when it's clearly appropriated territory.
The churches in mosques built by the Moors in Spain, which were then turned into churches after the Reconquesta, are now all museums, too.
The Christian Church they have defiled. Apropos
Tossing aside religion and politics — from an engineering and architectural viewpoint, the building is beautiful.
So, then, the camel’s urine didn’t work?
A relatively new explanation for much of the seeming "advances" of the Renaissance is that when the Ottoman's overan the Byzantine Empire in 1453 many merchants and craftsman fled to Venice, and thence to other parts of Italy. Venice was a center of commerce that their were already trade routes with.
The Renaisance then was, in some measure, a homecoming of the knowledge of the ancient Italians (the Romans) that had been transferred East by Constantine the Great, only to return over 1,000 years later. Famously the first dome built in Europe since antiquity was built in Florence in 1436. So the timing was good, Europe was back in the monumental construction business.
I think Recep Tayyip Erdogan ought to stake out 100 camels in St Sophia’s front yard and invite all the followers of the pedo to come lick a butt.
At least the camels may get a buzz out of it
It's true it hasn't been reconsecrated as a church since the Islamofacists conquered Turkey, but it DID change religious denominations and was briefly re-consecrated as a Roman Catholic Cathedral from 1204–1261, during the crusades. The Byzantines got it back and turned it back into an Eastern Orthodox cathedral (at least until 1453 when Constantinople fell to the Muslims), but they're still bitter about the Catholic takeover in the 1200s to this day.
Why not? The Hagia is a mosque anyway.
We visited Turkey and the stop at this mosque-once-a-church was a must.
The Turks changed it all, of course, but that was in 1453...even before the English came to America.
Thank-you: You short, but informative reply to my post makes me pine for our beloved Italia. I was planning our fourth and longest trip to Italy this fall when the Chinese Wuhan Flu broke out. My wife’s grandparents are from Campania, and her mother was born in the USA a few weeks after her grandparents immigrated here — legally — in 1935. When my wife recently received the results of her DNA test, she was perplexed to learn that her “Italian side” is mostly Greek, Turkish, Spanish, French, and Maltese. This came as no surprise to me given the historical fact that Italy — particularly southern Italy — has been an occupied territory for thousands of years.
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