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Istanbul (Turkey), Jul 24 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Sedat Suna) Tens of thousands of people took part on Friday in the first Muslim prayer in the ancient Basilica of Hagia Sophia, which was turned into a mosque again by the Turkish Islamist government.FOOTAGE OF HAGIA SOPHIA AND THE FIRST PRAYER.
Istanbul (Turkey), Jun 30 (EFE) .- (Camera: Ilya Tooper / Lara Villalón) Church or mosque? The secular Turkish Republic that emerged from the Ottoman Empire decided in 1935 that the Byzantine Basilica of Hagia Sophia would be a museum without religious charge, a decision that Islamism and Ottoman nostalgics in the country, represented by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, now want to reverse. On Thursday, July 2, the State Council, or Danistay, the highest administrative court, is expected to decide on the request of an unknown association to reverse the decree that 85 years ago secularized the building.FOOTAGE OF HAGIA SOPHIA.SOUNDBITES OF LÜFTI, WHO GOES TO FRIDAY PRAYERS AT THE BLUE MOSQUE IN FRONT OF HAGIA SOPHIA. Translation:"Now we have a museum here, which is neither a church nor a mosque. At the moment, the mosque is there, and that is enough for us. If the population grew a lot and there were many more people, then we would see it right to open the Hagia Sophia to prayer. But for now, there is no need. In this mosque here, for all the people who are going to pray, there is plenty of space."
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives for the first prayers at Hagia Sophia since the Istanbul landmark was reconverted to a mosque despite international condemnation. IMAGES
Istanbul, Apr 23 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Sedat Suna) Muslim faithful went on Friday to the Hagia Sophia mosque in Istanbul to participate in the prayers of this second Friday of Ramadan.FOOTAGE OF FRIDAY PRAYER IN ISTANBUL'S SANTA SOFIA MOSQUE
Erdogan's supporters gather and pray outside Istanbul's iconic Hagia Sophia mosque as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan leads Saturday prayers before entering the election battle of his political life against a powerful secular rival. IMAGES
Thousands of people pray outside the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul in what is the first Musmlim prayers since the controversial reconversion of the iconic cathedral into a mosque. IMAGES of first prayers outside Hagia Sophia
Istanbul (Turkey), Jul 24 (EFE), (Camera: Lara Villalón/Ilya U. Topper).- Tens of thousands of people took part on Friday in the first Muslim prayer in the ancient Basilica of Hagia Sophia, which was turned into a mosque again by the Turkish Islamist government.FOOTAGE OF HAGIA SOPHIA AND THE FIRST PRAYER.
Crowds gather outside Istanbul's Hagia Sophia for the first Friday prayer since the controversial reconversion of the landmark into a mosque. IMAGES
Istanbul (Turkey),Jul 10 (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: Erdem Sahin) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday signed a decree to revert the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul into a mosque. Turkey's top administrative court earlier annulled a 1934 presidential decree that turned the Byzantine church of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul into a secular museum to pave the way for the iconic building to become a mosque.FOOTAGE OF PEOPLE IN FRONT OF HAGIA SOPHIA CELEBRATING.
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