Built as a church and repurposed during its 1,500‑year history as a mosque, a museum and now a mosque once more, the Hagia ...

Step into a world where beauty, history, and culture converge,welcome to Turkey, a land rich in timeless charm and ...

Hagia Sophia in Trabzon: Church-mosque-museum and now mosque again The Hagia Sophia, Greek for "Holy Wisdom," was one of the many historic Orthodox churches located in the city of Trabzon. The third ...

The president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and his supporters, see this as a great era in Turkey's history. It's sort of linked to the reemergence of Turkey, in their eyes, from it's sort of sleepy ...

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, ordered Friday that the 700-year-old Chora Church -- currently the Kariye Museum -- be turned into a fully functioning mosque. The building’s history ...

On July 2, the Council of State, Turkey’s highest administrative court, began reviewing a request by a group devoted to reverting Hagia Sophia to a mosque. The group is pressing to annul the 1934 ...

Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, ordered Friday that the 700-year-old Chora Church -- currently the Kariye Museum -- be turned into a fully functioning mosque. The building's history ...

The Assyrian village of Zaz in Mardin, Turkey. Authorities have halted the construction of a mosque in Zaz, a historic Syriac village in the Midyat district of Mardin, southeastern Turkey, following ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — Muslim worshippers at the mosque on Friday said they viewed Chora Church's rededication as an Islamic site to be a national win for Turkey.

President Erdoğan has clearly expanded the place of Islam in Turkish society, but today's Turkish nationalism has deep historical roots. For both Turkey’s allies in the West and the beleaguered ...

Turkey will stop sending imams to German mosques – here’s why this matters (The Conversation) — The Turkish government started sending imams to Germany in the 1980s, but under a new ...