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  2. Hagia Sophia - Wikipedia

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    The Hagia Sophia Museum's social media channels were taken down the same day, with Erdoğan announcing at a press conference that prayers themselves would be held there from 24 July. [161] A presidential spokesperson said it would become a working mosque, open to anyone similar to the Parisian churches Sacré-Cœur and Notre-Dame.

  3. Category:Hagia Sophia - Wikipedia

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    It was an Orthodox church until the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453, then a mosque until 1935, then a museum and then from 2020 a mosque again, as well as being a Roman Catholic cathedral for some decades after the Fourth Crusade of 1204.

  4. Conversion of non-Islamic places of worship into mosques

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    Hagia Sophia (from the Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, "Holy Wisdom"; Latin: Sancta Sophia or Sancta Sapientia; Turkish: Ayasofya) was the cathedral of Constantinople in the state church of the Roman Empire and the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church's Patriarchate. After 1453 it became a mosque, and since 1931 it has been a museum in Istanbul ...

  5. From museum back to mosque: Turkish president reverts ... - AOL

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    Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan re-converted Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia into a mosque Friday, hours after a court ruled that a 1930s decision to make the iconic building into a museum had ...

  6. The Second Islamic Conquest of Hagia Sophia - AOL

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    The Church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is a purpose-built structure, and its purpose is the worship of the Christian God. This particular function is not incidental to the way the church was ...

  7. List of churches dedicated to Holy Wisdom - Wikipedia

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    Hagia Sophia: Constantinople : Turkey: 6th c. Turned into a mosque after 1453, was a museum and now it is reverting to a mosque. Little Hagia Sophia: Constantinople : Turkey: 6th c. The Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey), now a mosque. Hagia Sophia, Edessa: Edessa Turkey: 6th c. Hagia Sophia, Iznik

  8. I traveled to 50 of the top countries for tourism and ranked ...

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    Istanbul is a vibrant city with delicious cuisine and stunning sights such as the Hagia Sophia. The city is split — half in Europe and the other half in Asia — which makes for a fascinating ...

  9. Thomas Whittemore - Wikipedia

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    Of the radical and sudden transformation of Hagia Sophia from an active mosque to a secular museum in 1931 he wrote: "Santa Sophia was a mosque the day that I talked to him. The next morning, when I went to the mosque, there was a sign on the door written in Ataturk's own hand. It said: 'The museum is closed for repairs'" [7]

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