Hagia Sophia museum-to-mosque conversion draws range of reactions
The Hagia Sophia, an architectural masterpiece in Turkey, has been both a church and a mosque over the centuries, but since 1935 it served a strictly secular use as a museum.
WORSHIPPERS TAKE part in afternoon prayers at Hagia Sophia, newly designated a mosque, in Istanbul on July 26(photo credit: REUTERS/MURAD SEZER)ByPHILIP RAPAPORT/MEDIA LINE