Posted on 08/21/2020 5:46:36 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a presidential decree on Friday turning the historic Holy Saviour in Chora, a medieval Byzantine church in western Constantinople that was a museum, into a mosque.
The move follows the July decision to convert Hagia Sophia to a mosque, a move condemned by the international community.
The change in its status was passed in December 2019 but the decision of the State Council of Turkey had not been implemented, until today.
Chora is one of the most splendid examples of Byzantine art, and still preserves mosaics and frescoes. The interior is covered with Bible scenes and portraits of Jesus and the saints dating back to the fourteenth century.
(photos of Mosaics and more text at link)
(Excerpt) Read more at eu.greekreporter.com ...
Both Turkey and Greece are NATO members.
Erdoo the Islamist Dictator of Turkey is in total control, nothing in Turk government checks his ambitions.
A ‘church’ is just a building.
‘The Church’ are the people.................
Turkey gets booted from nato if our vsg gets reelected i predict. Erdogan will come to a sudden and violent end. He has seemed to piss off most everyone over there.
Totalitarians FAKE RELIGIONS doing the boot stomping and head chopping as needed. Acquiesence? ABSOLUTELY. Look about you.
I look “about” daily. Am thankful for where I live.
Yes, on both points.
I’ll side with the lazy Socialist Greeks over the Islamist Turks any day of the week.
I’ve always been big on property rights.
Yes, but ancient Churches should be preserved.
Without such structures, the depth and color of the history of the Church is lost.
Agree.
Save Thy people, O Lord,
and bless Thine inheritance.
Grant victory to Thy Church over her enemies,
and protect Thy people by Thy Holy Cross!
I have no clue if he’s any better, but there’s some guy here in PA that Erdogan wants extradited to Turkey for attempted overthrow of Turkey’s government.
“Am thankful for where I live.”
#me too
Brown shirts? Red Guard? The NEO-TOTALITARIANS aren’t Lone Rangers or even Texas Rangers. THEY ARE masked men and women though.
BOLO! Remember the Alamo BUMP!
“physical objects set aside for worship”
Whoa, full stop before stone tablets get thrown at you. Good grief.
You can burn every church building on Earth to the ground and it will make absolutely NO difference, NONE, in our ability to worship, be saved, and not die a second death.
Yes, Remember the Alamo
But far more important:
Remember San Jacinto!
(Me no Alamo, Me no Goliad!)
Another article with different photos
https://news.yahoo.com/turkeys-erdogan-converts-another-former-111601635.html
: ) Thanks for that reminder, Texas Fossil. True dat.
#me too
I’m up here in Michigan...you might say...a Michigan Fossil...(getting old)
I concur with your sentiment, it is a great lost to history of Christianity.
However, as is said, possession is 9/10ths of the law. The traditional means of possession is taking by force and holding by same. The turks fought the wars for possession many years ago so the lands and all structures are the turks to do as they please unless and until some one else is willing to take them back and hold by force.
That is just the way it is. But also applies to a small country that fought for and holds some territory to the south of Turkey....
Thanks, I understand getting old too.
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