A 900-year-old Christian church in Turkey is to be renovated into a functioning mosque�despite former governmental assurances that it would likely be renovated into a museum.
Update on this story. which gives some historical background.
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by Raymond Ibrahim � May 11, 2015
Foundations General Director Adnan Ertem argues that the building was a �sanctuary that was consecrated as a mosque�. It is a foundation that can be put into service in line with its foundational charter. Thus its function will be preserved.�
Enez�s Hagia Sophia, the name of the ancient church, is located inside the city of Ainos, along the border with Greece and stationed atop a hill, visible to all.
Another several-hundred-year-old church, Hagia Sophia in Trabzon along the Black Sea, although a museum for many years, was reopened in July 2013 as a mosque.
For many Muslims, the ultimate Islamic triumph will come when the primary Hagia Sophia in Istanbul (Constantinople), which is currently a museum, is transformed into a mosque�as Turkish leaders recently threatened when Pope Francis acknowledged the Armenian Genocide.
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