Hagia Sophia Became A Mosque

Hagia sophia the foremost cathedral in the entire christian world for nearly a thousand years officially became a mosque today and the party is on in istanbul.
Hagia sophia became a mosque. The hagia sophia s social media sites have already been removed. The 1934 decree was ruled to be unlawful under both ottoman and turkish law as hagia sophia s waqf endowed by sultan mehmed had designated the site a mosque. The ottomans turned the hagia sophia into a mosque in 1453 and it remained significant for muslims and orthodox christians alike. How the hagia sophia became a mosque on this day in 1453 may 29 20205 00 pmby robert spencer74 comments turkish president and would be caliph recep tayyip erdogan wants to turn the hagia sophia now a museum in istanbul back into a mosque.
The hagia sophia is set to be converted back into a mosque after a court ruled this week that the 1934 decision to turn it into a museum was illegal. After the ottoman conquest of constantinople in 1453 the basilica was converted into a mosque and the city renamed istanbul. Istanbul president recep tayyip erdogan sealed his long stated desire to restore the historic hagia sophia as a working mosque on friday opening the magnificent byzantine structure built in the. Turkey moves troops across border into iraq to fight kurdish rebels president trump and turkish president recep tayyip erdogan spoke on the phone tuesday after erdogan sparked global outrage by.
Paradoxically this was the same kind of thinking that led mustafa kemal ataturk the founder of secular turkey to convert the building to a museum in 1935. But how did the hagia sophia become a mosque in the first place. The hagia sophia mosque stood from 1453 to 1935 as the centerpiece of the ottoman empire the living demonstration of both the legitimacy of the regime and its power. While there was considerable excitement as crowds headed.
Byzantine emperor justinian built the greek orthodox cathedral in a d. President tayyip erdogan who has been agitating for this move has now signed a decree to end its museum status. Hagia sophia was built as an orthodox christian cathedral and first converted into a mosque after the ottoman conquest nine centuries later.