Friday, August 12, 2011

Turks : Do you want to Restore Hagia sophia as a church or keep it mosque?

Hagia Sophia is a mystical architectural beauty and used to be a Church which is made by the Byzantium Empire. In the 17th century it was converted to a Mosque and since 1935 it has been a museum. First, according to my opinion it shouldn't be a Church because the majority of religion in Turkey is Muslim and the conversion to a mosque from Church is a methaphor of the Constantinapole's(Istanbul) occupation by the Ottoman Empire in 1453. But this doesn't mean that it should be kept as a Mosque, because such a precious building in a capital of culture which has been the witness of history and to many important civilizations shouldn't be used just as a temple. The second thing is that Turkish republic should keep Hagia Sophia as a museum so that people around the world can see and feel the glorious architecture and the significant history of it.

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