Erdogan Mosque London
Hagia sophia grand mosque is a cultural heritage of humanity as a whole.
Erdogan mosque london. Erdogan had proposed restoring the unesco world heritage site into a mosque placing the almost 1 500 year old building at the center of a struggle between those who want to preserve turkey s. Friday july 24 2020 5 00pm the times friday prayers have been held inside hagia sophia for the first time in 86 years completing president erdogan s ambition to turn the building back into a. 2 the finial was coloured using nanotechnology and comprises of three parts. Erdogan pushed to reverse a cabinet decree of ataturk and did so.
Turkish president recep tayyip erdogan declared on friday that resurrecting a mosque inside the legendary hagia sophia cathedral is just the first step in a mission to liberate the al aqsa mosque in other words to eject the jews from the holy site in jerusalem they know as the temple mount. Erdogan reiterated his claim that hagia sophia was originally constructed as a mosque. The mosque features some of the largest gates inside a place of worship in the world where the main gate is 5 metres in length 6 5 metres in height and weighs 6 tons. During the christian byzantine empire the hagia sophia served as the seat of the greek orthodox church for centuries.
Construction on the camlica mosque complex began in 2013 and has a capacity of 63 000 worshippers. President recep tayyip erdogan inaugurated turkey s largest and newest mosque on friday. The decision was taken to hand over the management of the ayasofya mosque to the religious affairs directorate and open it for worship the decision signed by erdogan said adding he added that like all our mosques the doors of hagia sophia will be wide open to locals and foreigners muslims and non muslims. Described as europe s first eco mosque the facility is equipped with solar panels.
Erdogan s decree was made possible by a turkish court deciding that the 1934 change in hagia sophia s status from mosque to museum was an illegal act. Turkish president recep tayyip erdogan has officially opened the cambridge central mosque in the east of england. It was a mosque and was reverted back into a mosque erdogan later asserted after reciting the prayers claiming that some 350 000 people had come out to attend the first islamic prayers at the site in nearly a century.