A court in Istanbul heard a case that would have the 8th century building revert into a place of prayer once again.
A case heard in Turkey’s highest court Thursday could determine the future of the Hagia Sophia museum in Istanbul, allowing it to be turned back into a mosque, a proposal that has proved controversial internationally....
[+]AFP via Getty ImagesA lawyer on behalf of a religious group that wants to see the Hagia Sophia reconverted into a mosque argued that the site was theof Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II, who conquered the city in 1453, and that a 1934 decision to turn the building into a secular museum should be annulled, while an opposing state attorney maintained that it was perfectly legal and that theTurkish President Tayyip Erdoğan raised the idea of making the Hagia Sophia a mosque during...
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