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| The Grand Turk | |
| Istanbul begins building new mosque for iconic Taksim | |
| 2017-02-19 | |
| [AlAhram] ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... on Friday began building a mosque on the iconic Taksim Square in Istanbul which the local authorities hope will create a major new Islamic landmark in the heart of the country's largest city. Taksim Square is the bustling commercial heart of the city and has also been the focal point for decades of protests, including the 2013 demonstrations against the rule of President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... , then premier. But it has long lacked a major place for Moslem worship, located in an area which in Ottoman times was the preserve of Europeans and home to several churches.
He noted that the two-minaret mosque would be adjacent to a historic Greek Orthodox church. "Tourists who see the minarets of the mosque and the church will see how well we live together in this city." The new mosque is expected to be finished in two years. Turkey under Erdogan has in the last years gone on a spree of building mosques but the authorities say this is needed to satisfy the needs of its worshippers in the overwhelmingly Moslem country. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 if the crusaders had joined forces with the jews and kicked the muslims out of the levant as well as jerusalem then the hagia sophia would still be the grandest cathedral in christendom now it's a mosque we should learn from this failure. we should join putin to crush islamism. perhaps we can kick the islamists out and reinstall the secular |
| Posted by: anon1 2017-02-19 00:14 |