Russia warns Turkey over Hagia Sophia move

[Constantin84]

Russia played its cards well.

Muslims can't pray towards human images.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-europe-52780600L

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.al...-amazing-sign-solidarity-200523062615631.html

 

[terry5]

Jesus is dead and he won't come back


Haghia Sophia should be turned into a hotel

You believe that but Muslims differ on Jesus pbuh

turkey can do as it pleases who are you or I to tell them what to do .
They’re not Arabs so white man don’t rule over them

 

[Ceylal]

Russia Warns Turkey Over Hagia Sophia Move

AFP

July 6, 2020

Russian officials and the Orthodox church on Monday urged caution over calls in Turkey to alter the status of the Hagia Sophia, the historic former cathedral in Istanbul.

Turkey's top court is debating whether one of the architectural wonders of the world can be redesignated as a mosque, a move that could inflame tensions with the West and the Christian community.

A ruling expected in the coming days on the site, which is currently a museum.

The head of Russia's Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill said he was "deeply concerned" by the moves, describing Hagia Sophia as "one of the greatest monuments of Christian culture".

"A threat to Hagia Sophia is a threat to the whole of Christian civilisation, and therefore to our spirituality and history," the Orthodox church leader said in a statement.

"To this day, for every Russian Orthodox person, Hagia Sophia is a great Christian shrine," he said, urging the Turkish government to be cautious.

He said that altering the current neutral status of the historic building would cause "deep pain" among the Russian people.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the future of the historic site was a domestic Turkish issue, but added that he hoped Hagia Sophia's status as a World Heritage Site would be "taken into account".

He said the former cathedral was a "world masterpiece" that has "sacred value" for Russians.

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin told reporters Russia hopes "the global significance of the object will be taken into account".

Hagia Sophia was first constructed as a cathedral in the Christian Byzantine Empire in the sixth century but was converted into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453.

Transforming it into a museum was a key reform of the post-Ottoman authorities under the modern republic's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

But calls for it to serve again as a mosque have sparked anger among Christians and tensions between historic foes and uneasy NATO allies Turkey and Greece.

https://www.barrons.com/news/russia...ey-over-hagia-sophia-move-01594027224?tesla=y

What has this Mosque has to do with the Russians?

 

[Saddam Hussein]

You believe that but Muslims differ on Jesus pbuh

turkey can do as it pleases who are you or I to tell them what to do .
They’re not Arabs so white man don’t rule over them

Okay Bakistani

 

[-SINAN-]

Russia played its cards well.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-europe-52780600L

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.al...-amazing-sign-solidarity-200523062615631.html

It's not like you can't pray in church, you can't pray towards human pictures.

 

[Max]

It's Turkish sovereign right to do whatever they want in Istanbul or rest of Turkey.. I personally wouldn't support turning mosques to Church or otherwise, but If someone interfere in our internal affairs then I would like to show them middle finger.

 

[Pak_Sher]

Russia Warns Turkey Over Hagia Sophia Move

AFP

July 6, 2020

Russian officials and the Orthodox church on Monday urged caution over calls in Turkey to alter the status of the Hagia Sophia, the historic former cathedral in Istanbul.

Turkey's top court is debating whether one of the architectural wonders of the world can be redesignated as a mosque, a move that could inflame tensions with the West and the Christian community.

A ruling expected in the coming days on the site, which is currently a museum.

The head of Russia's Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill said he was "deeply concerned" by the moves, describing Hagia Sophia as "one of the greatest monuments of Christian culture".

"A threat to Hagia Sophia is a threat to the whole of Christian civilisation, and therefore to our spirituality and history," the Orthodox church leader said in a statement.

"To this day, for every Russian Orthodox person, Hagia Sophia is a great Christian shrine," he said, urging the Turkish government to be cautious.

He said that altering the current neutral status of the historic building would cause "deep pain" among the Russian people.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the future of the historic site was a domestic Turkish issue, but added that he hoped Hagia Sophia's status as a World Heritage Site would be "taken into account".

He said the former cathedral was a "world masterpiece" that has "sacred value" for Russians.

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin told reporters Russia hopes "the global significance of the object will be taken into account".

Hagia Sophia was first constructed as a cathedral in the Christian Byzantine Empire in the sixth century but was converted into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453.

Transforming it into a museum was a key reform of the post-Ottoman authorities under the modern republic's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

But calls for it to serve again as a mosque have sparked anger among Christians and tensions between historic foes and uneasy NATO allies Turkey and Greece.

https://www.barrons.com/news/russia...ey-over-hagia-sophia-move-01594027224?tesla=y

All places of worship should be respected. Allah is not happy with us & we are all in the pandemic, but somehow we are not realizing the wrath of Allah in starting more controversies and fitnahs

 

[himate]

Its always the strong who will rule

Like i always said that Turkey needs to build nukes in their thousands or declare nukes like the way israel does i.e not admitting it nor denying it. The enemies won't have the audacity to even question the EEZ let alone the sovereignty of Turkey.

Russia a regime who have committed genocide after genocide is warning Turkey about morality yet at the same time helping Assad to ethnic cleansing of its own people.
.

 

[surge]

I believe the iconic church just outside of Kremlin was also built from a mosque in Kazan.

that's true.

 

[Constantin84]

that's true.

No.It was constructed to honor the conquest not from a mosque

 

[Adonis]

Ayasofia is a masjid. Period.

Lol...it was built as a Greek Orthodox Church in 537 AD... Islam was not even born then...Period Over.

 

[PakFactor]

All places of worship should be respected. Allah is not happy with us & we are all in the pandemic, but somehow we are not realizing the wrath of Allah in starting more controversies and fitnahs

Muslims countries aren’t as badly impacted as Western & Christian based countries so we all good.

 

[Constantin84]

Muslims countries aren’t as badly impacted as Western & Christian based countries so we all good.

They are but no one's counting the dead as no one cares and there's no infrastructure to even count them

 

[PakFactor]

No.It was constructed to honor the conquest not from a mosque

Their is a church in Moscow that was
Constructed under the orders of Ivan using Kazak Masjid.

 

[Constantin84]

Their is a church in Moscow that was
Constructed under the orders of Ivan using Kazak Masjid.

Link and information pls? I might be wrong so I'm curious