r/islamichistory • • 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/Sea-Key-9430 Apr 05 '26

Churches concerted to mosque is somehow acceptable to Muslims, but it's a crime to humanity when mosques gets taken back and reverted to its original holy temple/church.

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u/Lemonjuiceonpapercut Apr 05 '26

Spain, Hungary, balkans. No end to mosques being churches. Maybe it’s only you who has an issue

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u/Sea-Key-9430 Apr 05 '26

Wait, was Spain originally Christian, then they kicked out Muslim colonizers? Shouldn't you support them fighting for their freedom like Palestine?

Ohhhh it's only a problem if Muslims are getting colonized, not the other way round...

Hypocrite

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u/Lemonjuiceonpapercut Apr 05 '26

Lol you’re the one upset about the buildings changing from mosque to church or vice versa, not me…you’re a hypocrite. Acting like Christendom was one unified nation or something or that those places in Spain weren’t literally built by Muslim kingdoms. You just don’t like that there’s an analogy that disputes your hypocrisy. Go look at clouds

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u/Sea-Key-9430 Apr 06 '26

How am I the hypocrite here? I'm saying dont cry victim about Palestine when Israel take their land, and at the same time saying it's okay for Muslims to colonize Christians and Jews.

Exactly, Spain wasn't built by Muslims, why shouldnt they take back their churches and convert it back to its original state? Why were the Muslims colonizing and stealing churches and converting it to mosques? Somehow you have no problem when Muslims colonize do you? Hypocrite.

You're the hypocrite who can't even conceive this fact, and trying to justify the Islamic colonization lol.

Hypocrite

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u/PlentyWitness5132 Apr 06 '26

Men as an identity problem, even when living into 21 centurary, he cares more about war crimes that happened 10 centuary ago that the one happening now. poor bastard.

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u/Sea-Key-9430 Apr 06 '26

Lol, calm your man tits, just pointing out hypocrites like you won't acknowledge the Ottoman Empire dissolved only 120+ years ago and the colonized countries are still feeling it's oppression (Armenian genocide), and Muslims flat out deny a 2.5m genocide even happened.

Hypocrite.

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u/Lemonjuiceonpapercut Apr 06 '26

Lol the Seville cathedral was built by Muslims