[google_font font=”Alef” size=”28″ weight=”700″ italic=”0″ letter_spacing=”” color=”#626262″ subset=”” inline=””]Russian Orthodox Church Says ‘Unacceptable’ to Turn Hagia Sophia Into a Mosque: Ifax[/google_font]

[google_font font=”Forum” size=”22″ weight=”400″ italic=”0″ letter_spacing=”” color=”#000000″ subset=”” inline=””]MOSCOW — Converting Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia monument from a museum to a mosque would be "unacceptable”, a senior official in the Russian Orthodox Church said on Saturday.[/google_font]

[google_font font=”Forum” size=”22″ weight=”400″ italic=”0″ letter_spacing=”” color=”#000000″ subset=”” inline=””]Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has proposed restoring the mosque status of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, a sixth century building at the heart of both the Christian Byzantine and Muslim Ottoman empires and now one of Turkey’s most visited monuments.[/google_font]

[google_font font=”Forum” size=”22″ weight=”400″ italic=”0″ letter_spacing=”” color=”#000000″ subset=”” inline=””]”We can’t go back to the Middle Ages now,” Metropolitan Hilarion, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, said on state television, the Interfax news agency reported.[/google_font]

[google_font font=”Forum” size=”22″ weight=”400″ italic=”0″ letter_spacing=”” color=”#000000″ subset=”” inline=””]”We live in a multipolar world, we live in a multi-confessional world and we need to respect the feelings of believers.”[/google_font]

[google_font font=”Forum” size=”22″ weight=”400″ italic=”0″ letter_spacing=”” color=”#000000″ subset=”” inline=””]For further details please go to Source Link: https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/07/04/world/europe/04reuters-turkey-museum-russia.html[/google_font]

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