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First prayers held in Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque after 86-year hiatus

Friday’s historic prayers in Turkey’s Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque have marked the first acts of worship there in 86 years. Hundreds of thousands of people took part in the traditional Friday prayers both inside and outside the historic mosque in Istanbul, Turkey’s largest metropolis. A Turkish court on July 10 annulled a 1934 Council of State decree that had turned Hagia Sophia into a museum, paving the way for its […]

today25 July 2020

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Turkey reconverts Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque

Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared Istanbul's Hagia Sophia open to Muslim worship after a top court ruled that the building's conversion to a museum by modern Turkey's founding statesman was illegal. Erdogan made the announcement on Friday an hour after the court ruling was revealed, despite international warnings not to change the status of the nearly 1,500-year-old monument, revered by Christians and Muslims alike. "The decision was taken […]

today11 July 2020

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