Come on, people. Have you
learned nothing since Constantinople became Muslim 567 years ago?
From Al-Jazeera.
The World Council of Churches has called on Turkey's President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan to reverse his decision to turn the celebrated Hagia Sophia
museum back into a mosque.
The Hagia Sophia
was built 1,500 years ago as an Orthodox Christian cathedral, but was converted
into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest in 1453.
It
was converted to a museum on the orders of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founding
father of modern, secular Turkey.
From Lone Star Parson
Hagia Sophia, Holy Wisdom Cathedral in
Istanbul, Justinian's remarkable church and the onetime center of Eastern
Christianity has been turned back into a mosque by Turkey's President Sultan,
Erdogan.
Built in the 6th century by Emperor Justinian,
Hagia Sophia was the principal church of the Eastern Roman Empire and perhaps
its greatest monument, rising above the Bosphorus. It remained intact, a
Christian Cathedral until May 1453, when Constantinople was finally
seized after a 57 day seige by Ottoman Turks led by Sultan Mehmet II.
It's
now a mosque again, thanks to the Sultanic aspirations of Erdogan. And as it
was in 1453 so it is now, does anyone in the West give a damn, or am I an army of one?
At least Russia's Patriarch, Metropolitan
Kirill has stepped up to the plate:
“A threat to Hagia Sophia is a threat to the
entire Christian civilization and, therefore, to our spirituality and history.
To this day Hagia Sophia remains a great Christian shrine for every Russian
Orthodox believer.”
Kirill continues:
“One should take into account that Russia is a
country with the majority of population professing Orthodoxy, and so, what may
happen to Hagia Sophia will inflict great pain on the Russian people.”
Christians, wake up and defend the Faith. It's
well beyond time.
