The Hagia Sophia is no longer a museum, so what’s changed?
has attracted a considerable amount of attention.
It remained a mosque until 1934, when, during the premiership of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk - Turkey’s leading founding father - the mosque was turned into a museum. According to the legal team who wanted to overturn the 1934 ruling, the structure was the private property of Sultan Mehmed II who converted the structure into an imperial mosque. The structure, the lawyers argued, should not be used against the will of the endower who had bequeathed the structure as a mosque in perpetuity.
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