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The apse of the 700-year-old Chora Church in Istanbul, Turkey. / Dosseman (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Turkey Turns Second Historic Istanbul Church into Mosque

Aug 22, 2020

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.

Mosque

Turkey Turns Second Historic Istanbul Church into Mosque

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