Turkish Islamists & The Hagia Sophia
By Rod Dreher • December 6, 2013, 9:19 AM
Turns out it’s not just a rumor that powerful Islamists within Turkey’s government are agitating to turn the Hagia Sophia back into a mosque. One of the greatest Christian churches in the world was converted to a mosque after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in the 15th century. It was made a museum under Kemal Ataturk’s secularist government in the 1930s. But now, those days may be coming to an end. Last month, a nationalist party introduced a bill to officially return the Hagia Sophia to mosque status. And:
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