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ASIA/TURKEY - The oldest Christian place of worship will become a mosque in Istanbul
Agenzia Fides ^ | 11/26/2013

Posted on 11/29/2013 2:34:45 PM PST by markomalley

Istanbul - The ancient monastery of San Giovanni in Studion, currently classified as the museum complex, will be transformed into a mosque in 2014, once the restoration work in progress are completed. The news was given by Turkish sources. This building, built as a place of Christian worship, seems destined to follow the fate of the ancient churches of Hagia Sophia in Trabzon and in Iznik.

The Christian Greek - Orthodox entrepreneur Lakis Vingas, a member of the General Directory of Foundations, commented on the news by pointing out that "cultural heritage is universal", and turning it into the soil of sectarian antagonisms ends up damaging large-scale civil coexistence.The monastery was founded in Constantinople in 463 by consul Studio, who placed it under the protection of St. John the Baptist. The community of "Studite" monks represented a bulwark in defense of doctrinal orthodoxy, opposing the monophysite thesis, the schism of Acacius and Iconoclasm. In 1204 the complex was sacked by the Latins during the Fourth Crusade. After the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks, the monastery church was transformed into a mosque in Imrahor, to become a museum in 1946.


TOPICS: Catholic; Orthodox Christian
KEYWORDS: christianity; history; islamicimperialism; orthodox; religion; turkey
FYI, Saint John the Forerunner at Stoudios was founded in 462. Hagia Sophia was constructed in 537.

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This was an important house of studies for all of Eastern Christianity and was a center of Orthodoxy during the Iconoclastic heresy of the 8th Century...during the period of the Second Ecumenical Council at Nicea.

Also, interestingly, part of the head of John the Baptist was supposedly housed there from the 9th Century until it was taken to France during the 13th Century.

Sadly, it appears that the iconoclasts will win out this day.

1 posted on 11/29/2013 2:34:45 PM PST by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Part IV. Of the Kingdom of Darkness
Chap. xlvii. Of the Benefit that proceedeth from such Darkness

[21] ...For from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pretence of succsession to St. Peter, their whole hierarchy (or kingdom of darkness) may be compared not unfitly to the kingdom of fairies (that is, to the old wives' fables in England, concerning ghosts and spirits and the feats they play in the night). And if a man consider the original of this ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive that the Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman empire sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. For so did the Papacy start out of the ruins of that heathen power.

[22] The language also which they use (both in the churches and in theirpublic acts) being Latin, which is not commonly used by any nationnow in the world, what is it but the ghost of the old Roman language?

[23] The fairies, in what nation soever they converse, have but one universal king, which some poets of ours call King Oberon; but the Scripture calls Beelzebub, prince of demons. The ecclesiastics likewise, in whose dominions soever they be found, acknowledge but one universal king, the Pope.


2 posted on 11/29/2013 2:36:56 PM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
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To: SunkenCiv

PING


3 posted on 11/29/2013 2:39:03 PM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

Thanks. It has been decades since I’ve read any Hobbes.

You do perceive the irony of your particular selection, right?


4 posted on 11/29/2013 2:55:16 PM PST by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

Confused, will Jesus be Pope or will Pope job be eliminated?


5 posted on 11/29/2013 2:55:20 PM PST by huldah1776
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To: markomalley

Complacency loses and is spit out of His mouth.


6 posted on 11/29/2013 2:55:56 PM PST by huldah1776
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To: markomalley

what does vladimire Putin say about this? Shouldn’t it be restored and opened as a Church?


7 posted on 11/29/2013 3:05:00 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: markomalley

That’s sad.

Having said that, it’s a good thing that the Church Militant doesn’t need to be housed in buildings, and even better that the Church Triumphant will reign with Christ, no matter what the leftists and Muslims want to say.


8 posted on 11/29/2013 3:09:13 PM PST by Luircin
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

What’s that from?


9 posted on 11/29/2013 3:10:15 PM PST by Luircin
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To: Luircin
What’s that from?

In case he doesn't answer, it's from Leviathan (Hobbes). Book IV Chapter 67.

10 posted on 11/29/2013 3:14:04 PM PST by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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To: markomalley

Ya Muslimes are screwing with things WAY above your pay grade, let alone your understanding.

God will NOT be mocked.

Hey, laugh at me Muslimes, I won’t do anything. But I am not He whom you should be worried about.

/obviously not directed at the FReeper poster


11 posted on 11/29/2013 3:14:20 PM PST by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: markomalley
Will its destruction be as complete as that wrought by the Latins in the 13th century?
12 posted on 11/29/2013 3:21:24 PM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated)
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To: Kolokotronis

Ping!


13 posted on 11/29/2013 4:12:36 PM PST by NYer ("The wise man is the one who can save his soul. - St. Nimatullah Al-Hardini)
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To: markomalley
You do perceive the irony of your particular selection, right?

Yes.

Hobbes said both the papacy and the presbyters were ghosts of the deceased Roman empire crowned upon the grave thereof...

Hobbes fled for his life to France while Cromwell laid waste to the British Isles proving it.

14 posted on 11/29/2013 6:07:49 PM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
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To: Kolokotronis

Exactly.

Saraphim.


15 posted on 11/29/2013 6:09:33 PM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

Seraphim...


16 posted on 11/29/2013 6:10:20 PM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
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To: markomalley
This was an important house of studies for all of Eastern Christianity and was a center of Orthodoxy during the Iconoclastic heresy of the 8th Century...during the period of the Second Ecumenical Council at Nicea. Also, interestingly, part of the head of John the Baptist was supposedly housed there from the 9th Century until it was taken to France during the 13th Century. Sadly, it appears that the iconoclasts will win out this day.

It's a building. Christianity does not reside in buildings - it resides in people's hearts and minds and souls. 20 For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”If the loss of a building (even old and historical in its uses) is considered a loss for Christianity, then Christianity can be taken from us by taking things away.

17 posted on 11/30/2013 3:28:52 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Kolokotronis

Probably not that complete.


18 posted on 12/03/2013 11:17:49 AM PST by cizinec ("Brother, your best friend ain't your Momma, it's the Field Artillery.")
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