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Sunday, April 1, 2018

Turkish president Erdogan recites Islamic prayer at Hagia Sophia despite historic link to secularism

... dedicating the prayer to the “souls of all who left us this work as inheritance, especially Istanbul's conqueror”. The Hagia Sophia was built during the 6th century Christian Byzantine Empire and served as the seat of the GREEK Orthodox Church. It was converted into an imperial mosque with the Ottoman ...


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