After Hagia Sophia, another historic Turkish church becomes a mosque aleteia.org
Just weeks after a very public conversion of Istanbul’s historic Hagia Sophia into a mosque, the president of Turkey has authorized a lesser known but just as historically significant church to open for Islamic worship.
The mediaeval Church of the Holy Savior in Chora, which contains precious 14th century Byzantine mosaics and frescoes, has been transferred to Turkey’s religious affairs department, which will begin the conversion process from its status as a museum into a mosque. Turkish President Recip Tayyip Erdoğan signed an edict on Friday declaring “the management of the Kariye (the Turkish word for Chora) Mosque be transferred to the Religious Affairs Directorate, and (the mosque) opened to worship.”…
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