Turkey’s Hagia Sophia likely to become a mosque once more
Once a church, then a mosque, it is now a museum and one of the most visited sites in Turkey
09 July 2020 - 18:33
Ankara — A Turkish court is likely to announce on Friday that the 1934 conversion of Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia into a museum was unlawful, two Turkish officials have said, paving the way for its restoration as a mosque despite international concerns.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has proposed restoring the mosque status of the sixth-century Unesco World Heritage Site, which was central to both the Christian Byzantine and Muslim Ottoman empires and is now one of the most visited monuments in Turkey...
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