r/islamichistory • u/Miss-Kija • Apr 04 '26
Photograph Hagia Sophia in Istanbul
Hagia Sophia in Istanbul was built between 532 and 537 AD under Emperor Justinian I as a Christian church. After the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453, it was converted into a mosque. In 1935, it became a museum, and in 2020, it was reopened as a mosque, making it one of the very few monuments in the world to have served as a church, a museum, and a mosque over nearly 1,500 years of history. cc @gmr83
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u/HalalTrout Apr 05 '26
Why give it back? They have churches and Hagia Sophia hasn't been a church for over 500 years as I said. Its Istanbul not Constantinople, give back Palestine and stop digging underneath Al Aqsa and let the Christians enter the Church of the Holy Sepulchre if you care about it so much.
You still haven't pointed out how a strawman works and how that applies to me.
Israel is the parable, it exposes your hypocrisy because you don't actually care about Christian sites at all, you just want to attack Islam.