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Should Ayia Sofia remain a museum or become a christian temple as it once was and why? |
Travel Info Built in the 6th century, Hagia Sophia 鈥?Greek for "Holy Wisdom" 鈥?was Christendom's greatest and most celebrated church. After parrying centuries of jihadi thrusts from Arabs, Constantinople 鈥?now Istanbul 鈥?was finally sacked by Turks in 1453, and Hagia Sophia's crosses were desecrated, its icons defaced. Along with thousands of other churches in the Byzantine Empire, it was immediately converted into a mosque, the tall minarets of Islam surrounding it in triumph. Nearly 500 years later, in 1935, as part of reformer Kemal Ataturk's drive to modernize Turkey, Hagia Sophia was secularized and transformed into a museum. Is there a Muslim temple that has ever been transformed into a museum in Europe? Should that ever happen? thanks Frank Travel Tips To begin with the last paragraph of your question, many mosques have been transormed even into churches in Spain, where the "spirit" of Ferdiando, Isabella and the Holly Inquisition still survives and dominates... As for the most common example of a mosque transformed into a museum, I just mention the Haseki mosque at Monastiraki - Athens (museum of ceramic art), while in a close distance, at the area of the Roman forum there is another mosque, transformed into....nothing. Hagia (Aya) Sofia must remain a museum of religious art, because it belongs to no nation or religion but to the whole humanity as a mastepiece of architecture and art. Any other use than as a museum would harm the building additionally, as it already suffers, as any monument does, of a gradual damages by the visit of thousands of tourists, as Ipek already mentioned. And being, once again, a devil's advocate, I'll just ask why doesn't anybody propose that the bysantine Monastery of Dafni in Athens be transformed into a church ? (it's a museum too). The same stands for Nea Moni at Chios island, the mosaics of which are (or rather were) magnificent and similar to similar to those of Dafni, and is neither a church not a museum, just a cralling down by negligence bysantine monument... Going even further, I would ask some fanatic Orthodox believers the reason why the (Catholic) Madona Chapel of the former Villa Devecchi in Rodos island has been transformed into a filthy open public toilet (unbelievable ? Though absolutely true). In conclusion: Let the marbled king rest in peace, monumets too.... Edit 1. For heaven's sake, several aswerers, get some elementary knowledge: Justinianus was not Greek, nor was his east Roman Empire... He and his nasty company destroyed in purpose everything greek...It's written even in the schoolbooks that he (violently) closed down all Greek philosofical Schools.... Edit 2. Selin, your haterade to Greeks exceeds even your ignorance. There are two old mosques in Athens, and many in Rodos, not to mention Ioannina, but also Xanthi, Komotini etc, where they are actually used as religious centers. And being beyond any generalization, I have to inform you that the famous "marbles" of the Parthenon in Athens have been sold to Lord Elgin by the Turkish governor of the city, while Parthenon, the most precious monument of the ancient world and of all times was from the begining of the conquest of Athens tranformed into a mosque, suffering many damages too, and the rest of the Acropolis monuments were tranformed into palaces and houses for the local turkish aristocracy ... I'm objective, can't some people be too? Edit 3. Stelios, you are Celin's male version... fanatic dreamers of both sides, why don't you make an alliance? You're so identical that finally you'll match... Others The Alhambra in Spain, perhaps? It is maybe more of a palace than strictly a mosque, but I believe there is a mosque on the premises, and I believe that it is now a museum, in Granada. http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/... now in 陌stanbul we are still building mosques cos there is a need but there are enough churches for the christian community and they cant even fill those and also after We took 陌stanbul Fatih Sultan Mehmet Han paid for Haghia Sophia to the roman christian community.So we are not BURNING or DESTROYING the temples.still people praying for God in those mosques.And also in Europe m眉sl眉mans had no right to live in those times so they cant transfrom anything to anything.be open minded and logical ,world is not turning around with your emotions in 2000 Serbians were still burning the mosques,in Romania about 1998 not remember the date exactly, they turned the mosque to a pub&restaurant and in the minaret they were drinking we all saw on TV and millions of m眉sl眉mans were living in now Greece but Now how many mosque are there?????search in your language and write here.Still m眉sl眉mans are praying in basement in Greece am i wrong tell me!!! an in your one of the biggest city Athens there is no mosque search and confirm that too!!!!T眉rks in Greece cant even establish an union includin the word ''T眉rk''. here we dont let our islami leaders,imams talk to the public with an religious identity but you are expecting roman church to lead all the world from T眉rk lands.walk after the priests, burn T眉rk flags with the priests say facist things with the priests and and expect Haghia Sophia to turn its old days.im looking for logic in this question but cant see a bit ya ya let them pray ! i visited church once to look inside they kicked me out cuz they were praying! hagia sophia is a museum gonna stay like this. at least we did not destroy churches when we got istanbul like you greeks did to mosques. you destroyed the mosques. you put people in them and you burned them. there is not a mosque in europe that transformed to a museum cuz europens burned the mosques . like in Bosnia.enough said? ooo who stared the question i wonder? M.K.ATAT脺RK said:AYASOFYA CAM陌S陌 remains a museum until infinity. |
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