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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)
Sun Feb 9, 2014, 01:18 PM Feb 2014

Welby backs Orthodox in fight over Hagia Sophia

Author:
George Conger
The Archbishop of Canterbury has lent his support to the Ecumenical Patriarch in the battle with Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) over plans to convert Hagia Sophia into a mosque.

Following the conquest of Constantinople the Ottoman Turks turned the ancient church into a mosque. However members of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ruling party have called upon the government to overturn the decision made in the 1930s by Kemal Ataturk to turn the cathedral into a museum.

Archon news reports that during his visit with Patriarch Bartholomew I last month the Archbishop of Canterbury said Hagia Sophia “should not become a mosque.”

“That would be another loss, in which a great symbol of civilization throughout the world was transformed into a particular symbol of exclusivism,” the archbishop was quoted as saying.

- See more at: http://www.anglicanink.com/article/welby-backs-orthodox-fight-over-hagia-sophia#sthash.atPK4nAM.dpuf

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