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Towering over Istanbul atop one of its highest hills, Hagia Sophia has stood for over 1,500 years as an architectural wonder, one of the largest and most remarkable Christian churches ever built. Read more Section: News Premium Preview Read Later Source
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Turks pray at Hagia Sophia for the end of Ramadan and express solidarity with Palestinians
May 13th, 2021 
Awake Goy Hundreds of Muslims attended dawn Eid al-Fitr prayers at Istanbul’s iconic Hagia Sophia for the first time since it was controversially reconverted into a mosque last year. The three-day Eid al-Fitr festival marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan — the month of prayer and fasting for Muslims around the world. Muslim worshippers […]
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No Comments »Mapping The Lost Subterranean Christian Origins Of Hagia Sophia
January 6th, 2021 Awake Goy At one time a cathedral, later a mosque, and now the chief museum of the Turkish Republic, Hagia Sophia, in the ancient Byzantine imperial capital of Constantinople (now Istanbul), was a world-famous architectural monument in both the Byzantine and Ottoman empires. Located in the heart of Istanbul, a city fusing symbolic and architectural characteristics from […]
Orthodox church petitions UN over Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia
September 30th, 2020 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved
Syrian city lays foundation for replica of Hagia Sophia cathedral
September 7th, 2020 Awake Goy By News Desk -2020-09-06 BEIRUT, LEBANON (1:45 P.M.) – The city of Al-Sqaylabiyeh in western Hama witnessed the foundation of the stone laying ceremony for the symbolic Hagia Sophia Church, which will be a replica of the mother cathedral of Hagia Sophia in Turkey. The ceremony was held the presence of Syrian and Russian officials, in addition […]
After Hagia Sophia, Turkey’s historic Chora church also converted to mosque
August 23rd, 2020 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved
After Hagia Sophia, Turkey turns another museum and former church into mosque
August 22nd, 2020 Awake Goy ANKARA, Turkey — The Turkish government formally converted a former Byzantine church into a mosque Friday, a move that came a month after it drew praise from the faithful and international condemnation for similarly turning Istanbul’s landmark Hagia Sophia into a Muslim house of prayer. A decision by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, published in the […]
The Storied Past of Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia
August 8th, 2020 Awake Goy 
On July 12, 2020, Pope Francis stood silently in a pulpit placed in the large window overlooking St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican in Rome. He had just delivered the weekly Angelus prayer given each Sunday, which had lifted up those who work at sea, far from their homes. After a moment of reflection, he […]
Russians still hope Hagia Sophia to remain Orthodox — The Duran
August 4th, 2020 Awake Goy 
Submitted by Nadia Bazuk… Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on July 10, 2020, repealed a decree, signed by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. An Orthodox Christian cathedral built in 537 by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I once again has turned into a mosque. 988 more words via Russians still hope Hagia Sophia to remain Orthodox — The Duran […]
WAIA issues statement on reopening Hagia Sophia Mosque
July 27th, 2020 Awake Goy 
The full text of the statement is as follows, The Crusades coincided with a period in history that many thinkers such as French Gustave Le Bon confess that East is the Cradle of Civilization and coincided with the heyday of Islamic civilization, the Crusades were detrimental to Muslims throughout the world due to lack of culture and […]
Posted in Jew World Order, Jewish News Tags: hagia, issues, Mosque, reopening, sophia, statement No Comments »The Pendulum Swings Again: the Desecration of Hagia Sophia
July 20th, 2020 Awake Goy Source Stephen Karganovic July 18, 2020 The Turkish President should have consulted the prophecies of St. Paisius of the Holy Mountain rather than whatever kitaps he was reading before embarking on his risky provocation. In plain Greek, several decades ago St. Paisius was educating Turkish leaders about the sequence of events that the reconversion of Hagia […]
