The President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan has placed another aged Orthodox Church as well as a famous Istanbul gallery to be converted into a mosque.
The choice to transform the Kariye Museum in a mosque began merely a month after a questionable exchange for the UNESCO World Heritage-recognised Hagia Sophia. The judgment on the subject was written in Turkey’s formal publication this Friday.
The 1,000-year-old building’s story almost follows the Hagia Sophia – its more prominent acquaintance on the famous western edge of the Golden Horn on the European front of Istanbul, Turkey.
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The Holy Saviour in Chora was an ancient Byzantine church adorned with 14th-century frescoes of the Ultimate experience that live appreciated in the Christian atmosphere.
It was basically turned into the Kariye Mosque half a hundred years right after the 1453 victory of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks.
It grew the Kariye Museum following World War II as Turkey started forward with the production of a major temporal new government out of the dust of the Ottoman Empire.
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A gathering of American architecture archaeologists then served to replace the primary church’s collections and initiated them up for an unrestricted appearance in 1958.















