Should we get Agios Sophia back?

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• minatasgeel

  April 2007

  [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.
• markoc pi apostolo

  April 2007

  now its a museum not a mosque anymore
  
  GBU
  
  P4M
• Unknown

  April 2007

  [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.
• Anglican

  April 2007

  Dear Vassilios,
  
  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