Turkish Hagia Sophia now a mosque: Erdogan

By Daren Butler and Ece Toksabay
Updated July 11 2020 - 2:11am, first published 2:06am
A Turkish court has annulled a 1934 decree that turned Istanbul's Hagia Sophia into a museum.
A Turkish court has annulled a 1934 decree that turned Istanbul's Hagia Sophia into a museum.

President Tayyip Erdogan has declared Istanbul's Hagia Sophia open to Muslim prayer as a mosque after a top court ruled that the building's conversion to a museum by modern Turkey's founding statesman was illegal.

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