Agia Sophia and the plans to make it a mosque again

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As the 29th of May approaches, plans by the Turkish government are made to make Agia Sophia, the most glorious church of Christendom, a mosque once again.

What UNESCO has to say about this?

Should we let this molesting take place?
 
I was surprised to read here that Agia Sophia is a church.
It is not, it is a museum :

Hagia Sophia (from the Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, "Holy Wisdom"; Latin: Sancta Sophia or Sancta Sapientia; Turkish: Ayasofya) is a former Greek Orthodox patriarchal basilica (church), later an imperial mosque, and now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey. From the date of its construction in 537 until 1453, it served as an Eastern Orthodox cathedral and seat of the Patriarchate of Constantinople,[1] except between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted to a Roman Catholic cathedral under the Latin Empire. The building was a mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931. It was then secularized and opened as a museum on 1 February 1935.[2]

I think it should remain with the status it has now. It would be stupid to change it, and a very bad sign.
 
bicicleur said:
I was surprised to read here that Agia Sophia is a church.
It is not, it is a museum :

Hagia Sophia (from the Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, "Holy Wisdom"; Latin: Sancta Sophia or Sancta Sapientia; Turkish: Ayasofya) is a former Greek Orthodox patriarchal basilica (church), later an imperial mosque, and now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey. From the date of its construction in 537 until 1453, it served as an Eastern Orthodox cathedral and seat of the Patriarchate of Constantinople,[1] except between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted to a Roman Catholic cathedral under the Latin Empire. The building was a mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931. It was then secularized and opened as a museum on 1 February 1935.[2]

I think it should remain with the status it has now. It would be stupid to change it, and a very bad sign.
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We know what Agia Sophia is. There is not need to post redundant info.

Do museums look like churches? Of course not.
 
Echetlaeus said:
We know what Agia Sophia is. There is not need to post redundant info.

Do museums look like churches? Of course not.
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it is not a church, it is not a mosque
it is a historic monument
no religious ceremonies have been held inside since 1931
and it should stay that way
 
bicicleur said:
it is not a church, it is not a mosque
it is a historic monument
no religious ceremonies have been held inside since 1931
and it should stay that way
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How can you say that? Everybody in the world knows that Agia Sophia is a church!

Why should it stay w/o Christian ceremonies?
 
Why should it stay w/o Christian ceremonies?
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Because only one of the sides would feel satisfied if it became a mosque or a church again. For the Greek orthodox it is an outrage if it became a mosque again and for the sonnies it would be an outrage if it became church again. So a museum status is not that bad, nobody is really happy or serious offended, status quo.
 
Christiaan said:
Because only one of the sides would feel satisfied if it became a mosque or a church again. For the Greek orthodox it is an outrage if it became a mosque again and for the sonnies it would be an outrage if it became church again. So a museum status is not that bad, nobody is really happy or serious offended, status quo.
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Yeah, status quo, till the new war :/
 
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