The Hagia Sophia is a museum now, although it does host some Islamic prayer. It was originally a cathedral, then was turned into a mosque when Constantinople fell to the warriors of jihad on May 29, 1453. In my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, I detail what happened on that day. The Byzantine scholar Bessarion wrote to the Doge of Venice two months after the conquest, in July 1453, saying that Constantinople had been
…sacked by the most inhuman barbarians and the most savage enemies of the Christian faith, by the fiercest of wild beasts. The public treasure has been consumed, private wealth has been destroyed, the temples have been stripped of gold, silver, jewels, the relics of the saints, and other most precious ornaments. Men have been butchered like cattle, women abducted, virgins ravished, and children snatched from the arms of their parents.
So much for the much-vaunted Islamic “tolerance” in Europe. Arm yourself with the truth by ordering The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS — click here to do so now.
“Demand for Hagia Sophia to be opened for prayer ‘inadmissible,’ says top court,” Hürriyet Daily News, September 13, 2018:
The Constitutional Court on Sept. 13 held an application made by a private association that called for the opening of the Hagia Sophia to worshipping as “inadmissible” on the grounds of “incompetence ratione personae,” state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.
The Constitutional Court dismisses applications as incompatible ratione personae when the applicant is not a victim of the events or measures in question.
The relevant Istanbul-based association requested the Turkish government to make arrangements to open the Hagia Sophia as a Muslim prayer house in 2004 but did not receive a response.
In 2005, they appealed to the Council of State, which rejected the association’s request. This time, the association took the case to the Constitutional Court in an application in 2015 claiming the current status of the Hagia Sophia serving as a museum is in violation of the freedom of religion and belief….