Agios Sophia was the world's first basilica, commissioned by Constantine the Great, and Theodosius. This historic building has been converted to a mosque during the Ottoman invasion of Constantinople. Do you think they ought to give us this back?
[quote author=vassilios link=topic=5240.msg70299#msg70299 date=1177356042] Agios Sophia was the world's first basilica, commissioned by Constantine the Great, and Theodosius. This historic building has been converted to a mosque during the Ottoman invasion of Constantinople. Do you think they ought to give us this back?
sure. anything that helps having another church and a congregation is great, but how??!!!! you u'll never be able to take a mosque asnd turned into a church even thoo it was originally.
[quote author=markoc pi apostolo link=topic=5240.msg70303#msg70303 date=1177361080] now its a museum not a mosque anymore
GBU
P4M
Its a museum in that you have to pay 10 Liras to get in and see it, but its a mosque in that they've got islamic writing all over it. They've taken off the alter and iconostasis. If u ask me, it was in fear of a revolt had they kept on using it as a mosque.
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Agios Sophia was the world's first basilica, commissioned by Constantine the Great, and Theodosius. This historic building has been converted to a mosque during the Ottoman invasion of Constantinople. Do you think they ought to give us this back?
sure. anything that helps having another church and a congregation is great, but how??!!!!
you u'll never be able to take a mosque asnd turned into a church even thoo it was originally.
GBU
P4M
now its a museum not a mosque anymore
GBU
P4M
Its a museum in that you have to pay 10 Liras to get in and see it, but its a mosque in that they've got islamic writing all over it. They've taken off the alter and iconostasis. If u ask me, it was in fear of a revolt had they kept on using it as a mosque.
Who's the 'we'? The guys who say you can't communicate?
I fear that no regime in Turkey would ever contemplate handing this back to the Orthodox Church - their own public opinion would not allow it.
In Christ,
John