Turkey Reconverts Hagia Sophia Museum into a Mosque 🕌

Turkey's president 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 despite international warnings not to change the status of the nearly 1,500-year-old monument, revered by Christians and Muslims alike. The Council of State, which was debating a case brought by a Turkish religious organisation, cancelled a 1934 cabinet decision that defined the sixth-century building as a museum. The organisation which brought the court case, the latest in a 16-year legal battle, said the Hagia Sophia was the property of the Ottoman leader who captured the city in 1453 and turned the already 900-year-old Byzantine church into a mosque. The United States, Russia and Greece, along with UNESCO, had expressed concerns ahead of the ruling.

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Location: Istanbul, Turkey