24 août 2020
Anciennes ¢glises Byzantines, Assyriennes et Arméniennes, converties en Mosquées en Turquie. Ancient Byzantine, Assyrian and Armenian, Churches converted into Mosques in Turkey.
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Mosque minaret Chora museum under renovation ,The Church of the Holy Saviour in Chora is a medieval Byzantine Greek Orthodox church preserved as the Chora Museum in Istanbul, the Muslim call to prayer. In November 2019, the Turkish Council of State, Turkey's highest administrative court, ordered that it was to be reconverted to a mosque, should return "to its original worship", that is, Islam. The Church of the Holy Saviour in Chora is a Originally a medieval Byzantine Greek Orthodox church in Constantinople (Istanbul), This church was built in the fifth century, rebuilt in the eleventh and then in the fourteenth. It is considered one of the most beautiful Byzantine churches, preserved as the Chora Museum in the Edirnekapı neighborhood of Istanbul. The neighborhood is situated in the western part of the municipality (belediye) of the Fatih district. In the 16th century, during the Ottoman era, the church was converted into a mosque; it became a museum in 1948, though is to be reconverted to a mosque. The interior of the building is covered with some of the oldest and finest surviving Byzantine mosaics and frescoes; they were uncovered and restored after the building was secularized and turned into a museum.Istanbul.Turkey, July 22, 2020.
Lieu : ISTANBUL, TURKEY
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