Tag: #AaysofyaMosque
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Turkey’s Hagia Sophia to be converted into a Mosque
Istanbul, 10th July: The iconic cultural site has reopened for Muslim worship, declared President Erdogan after a court ruling. Hagia Sophia was built as a cathedral by the Byzantine Empire but after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453, it was converted into a mosque. In the early days of the modern secular Turkish state…