Turkey turns second historic Istanbul church into mosque

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Rome Newsroom, Aug 21, 2020 / 05:30 am MT (CNA).- A month after the former cathedral Hagia Sophia was converted from a museum into a mosque, another Istanbul church-museum, renowned for its exquisite Byzantine mosaics, will undergo the same transformation. Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, ordered Friday that the 700-year-old Chora Church — currently the […]

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