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2014-03-15 Europe

Church Criticized over Spain's Mosque-Turned-Cathedral

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Posted by Fred 2014-03-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Sad

Posted by Shipman 2014-03-15 01:04|| 2014-03-15 01:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Exactly Shipman!

Posted by Incredulous 2014-03-15 06:23|| 2014-03-15 06:23|| Front Page Top

#3 What exactly is sad?

Posted by Sgt. D.T. 2014-03-15 12:24|| 2014-03-15 12:24|| Front Page Top

#4 It's the Hagia Sophia, Sgt. D.T., once upon a time one of the grandest Romanesque churches in Christendom, since the Turkish conquest of Constantinople made into a mosque -- note the much later minarets at the corners. After the Ottomans were unseated, it was made into a museum, but there is talk of returning it to ~~religious~~ Muslim use.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-03-15 13:52|| 2014-03-15 13:52|| Front Page Top

#5 My apologies, that's Byzantine, not Romanesque.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-03-15 17:47|| 2014-03-15 17:47|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh, and then there's this key bit, with no explanation by the protestors of how that happened to be, nor why that would effect the behaviour of those currently in charge of the thing:

The visitors' leaflets point out that a mosque was built on the site of a Visigoth church in the eighth century

Posted by trailing wife 2014-03-15 17:49|| 2014-03-15 17:49|| Front Page Top

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