Orthodox leaders and UNESCO object to famous former church no longer being a museum.
Jayson Casper and the Associated Press
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As Christians feared and many expected, the Hagia Sophia is now—again—a mosque.
The
Turkish Council of State ruled today that the original 1934 decision to
convert the sixth-century Byzantine basilica into a museum was illegal.
When Ottoman sultan Mehmet II conquered then-Constantinople, he ...
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