From Church To Mosque: Did You Know Turkey's Iconic Hagia Sophia Belongs To Waqf?
What visiting this UNESCO World Heritage Site tells us about faith, politics, and power, Destinations News - Times Now ...
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A Monumental Struggle to Preserve Hagia Sophia
Hagia Sophia was the most important building in the Eastern Christian world: the seat of the Orthodox patriarch, counterpart to Roman Catholicism's pope, as well as the central church of the ...
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Hagia Sophia will be open to visitors outside prayer times, and Christian icons will remain, pledges Turkey
The decision sparked condemnation from Western governments, Russia and Christian leaders ... to stress that Hagia Sophia turned into a mosque from a museum, not from a church,” he said ...
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Hagia Sophia's Christian icons to be covered with curtains during prayers
Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...
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Hagia Sophia Mosque (Ayasofya Cami)
Tourists flock en masse to the Hagia Sophia for its stunning architecture, glorious interior views and historical significance. Built between 532 and 537, the building was a church for nearly a ...
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Russian Orthodox Church concerned by fate of Byzantine mosaics in Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia
Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations Metropolitan Hilarion said. Hagia Sophia is the former Greek Orthodox Christian patriarchal cathedral built in AD 532 ...