The Church (Yeah I said it) is older than the religion of Islam... It served as a church twice as long as it was a Mosque. By no metric should the Hagia Sophia be a Mosque.
Fanjar Wijaksono the land, originally called “Anatolia” and a Greek speaking country, should not have been conquered in the first place. Just like all the other lands that has been conquered, was forcefully immoral, by this it caused curses and later defeat that has been proved. Ottoman Empire was dissolute and defeated in WW1 and later (Turkey) in WW2.
Islam has always been islam. It's the religion of all the prophets and the religion of the one and only Creator of the universe and everything in it. Islam is eternal. You can call it what you want but it's always been there.
@obsidianstatue There is a lot of historic monuments, Turks cherish build by their ancestors they also cherish a monuments "symbolism of conquest that ended Eastern Rome Empire" such as "Hagia Sophia" some also cherish butthurted comments like above. 500 years old conquests get over it.
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Where were the UN and UNESCO when the Americans and nato bombed and destroyed the hundreds of heritage sites in Iraq. Are they going to restore them
@Troy Dield speak if you know something,or shut up,if you know nothing,Isis did not bomb anywhere,since they did not have any air forces,plus when IRAQ was being bombed,there was no Isis
@Sherbet Lemon Plenty of evidence of Babri Masjid having been built on a Hindu temple. So you argument of comparing Babri with Hagia Sophia is an argument of false equivalence. The supreme court of India recognises the demolition of Babri to be wrong ard the people responsible for it are being tried. You can also find mosques having been built on vandalised Hindu temples in Varanasi.
are u aware of what UNESCO is...and did you know that babri Mosque in not in world heritage list.. now you must accept if muslim majority country can do this why not india it is also hindu majority .....
Can Christians pray there as it was a church before? This man is deceitful comparing europe’s treatment of islam and mosque!!! Number of mosques in Europe!!! Financial support from the governments.
@Battal Gazi I actually support the decision..i dont have problem with it. The same way I support Israel. It doesn't matter who owned in the past...it only matters who owns it now.
By Darwin's theory:::: Humans beings transformed from animals with time.. By your logic:: humans must transformed into animals as they were before animals. WOW Your logic appreciateable.
Descendants of people who built the statues destroyed it. Many churches in northern Europe are built upon Nordic burial sites. God bless those people who destroyed Jewish churches built on their ancestor's graves.
@@dimitristriantafillou593 why u keep asking when??... justify your reason of when?.... i want to change it now so what??.... what u want to say about that again?
@@MajidKhan-ef2zy u live 1000 years ago in the age of ignorance or do u live in 2020 in the age of tolerance...if the jews change the al Aqsa mosque because they can...u will be at arms...dont u see that this is double standards
I want to make a very different opinion By the time hagia sophia was converted back to mosque, the president endorgan indirectly opened the forbidden chapter about religion superiority. We know well that Hagia sophia was considered as a witness of the war between ottoman and byzantine. The decision of the turkey president in 1934 by making hagia sophia as a museum actually is enough to close the book of religion war that happened for centuries, so people around world can remember hagia sophia as a symbol of peace. Now, only time can tell whether hagia sophia can still hold that symbol of peace
و لو يا حليم!!! خدنا بحلمك، انتا بتصدق ادعائات الحزب القومي العلماني التركي،بعد لهلق مش عارف انو أأمن للمسيحيي ناس بتعرف الله من ناس علمانية ما في رحمة بقلوبها، ليش بلبنان شو خرب بيتنا غير توطاية راسنا للغريب، شو بدنا بالغريب، بحياتك بتفضل جارك بزغرتا يكون مسلم و لا يكون شيوعي أو حتى بروتيستانت؟!!!!
Don Taytayon yeah, but what about the Mosques 🕌 in Spain that are converted to churches??? And Museums ??? What do you say about that as peace? Don’t be biased.
The sultan had purchased the cathedral from the orthodox christians after the conquest. The papers of the agreement were still preserved and when it was produced in the Apex court it was ruled accordingly.
@Tomsie bro if he would have occupied it forcefully which ideally he should have done after the conquest then too your statement would not have changed right?? U decide bro should such pre conceived notions be entertained ?
@@AmanShaikh-pc3ps Religion means to reconnect with God, the Absolute Truth. You think religion means to try to play God yourself. Indeed, you're insane for a reason.
Rajarsi...only If Faith (iman) had been poured in your heart...not the ecstasy of mystical interpretations which u think is the way to reconnect with God. You did not create yourself yet you claim to have your own different ways in life to connect to God is that not “insane”.
1453 lives again it's about Time... it should never have been a museum who ever saw a museum with 4 minarets ...has anyone ever seen a church as a museum ?..
It is a church. Like we still upkeep and maintain your mosques so should you keep the churches. But this is not what you have done thus far. It says a lot about your so called "religion". You have the mosque next to Hagia Sofia, why do you need that specific church?
Aali145 Aali145 I love turkey too I have lot off Turkish friends I don’t mean that Turkey is a weak country but there government is just following what modi butcher doing in india So you don’t talk about help anyone because without American permission even your prime minister can’t go to washroom lol 😂
Turkey has way to much pride for their spokesmen to admit they have national issues. "I don't know where you get your facts from, but we're doing better than everyone else."
Arshi Khan THIS IS OUR OWN LAND YOU FOOL! THE VERY LAND YOU CLAIM AS “ISTANBUL” IS MADE BY EUROPEANS. You can live there but don’t imply that it’s yours because it isn’t
Mosques in Spain have been turned into churches,bars and night clubs( against the peace treaty) The babe i mosque of india turned into temple of idols They want to transform masjid aqsa in Jerusalem with all it’s sanctuaries as the capital Of the Zionist! We have not heard a western or eastern voice condemning these crimes But reverting The Hague Sophia to mosque exposed the ha Tired of the mentally eclipsed from the east and the west!! The Alhambra palace mosque in granada was converted to the Santa Maria cathedral Masjid qasim pasha has been Changed to Saint Michael cathedral The jami masjid of qurtuba has been converted to a cathedral Masjid ibn adees has been changed to the Salvador cathedral Masjidul murabiteen has been has been converted to the Khan khausiyya church Jami masjid of Seville has Been changed to the church of Mary No one is mourning the diversity and rich Islamic history of mosques-turned-churches In Spain that surveil and monitor Muslim tourists & stop them from praying inside That erasure is “ acceptable”. And don’t forget sultan mehmet bought it from his personal wealth from Christians and donated it to be a mosque it’s clearly stated in the title deeds on display in Hagia Sophia
Mehmet Celik say that Turkey doesn’t destroy churches. Maybe he should go back and see what they did and do to Armenian churches there. Oh ya, I forgot, Turkey writes their history their own way so all that isn’t written or captured in record for the world to see. What a load of bs! Just go and look at city of Ani in Turkey (city of 1000 churches). See what the Turks did to that city.
Sarkis Isayan And what about the Mosqs in Armenia? How many Mosqs do we have in Armenia? And what about the Ottoman architecture that was in Europe and nowadays Armenia? You can cry in your corner, please feel free to do so!
Oguz Han Oguz Han Since you are so aware of how many mosques there are in Armenia, why don’t you tell us? Armenia is an Orthodox Christian nation. It has been for over 1700 years. There was never a conversation to Islam for Armenians to build Mosques. There was no reason. Ottomans did nothing but destroy and plunder nations, let’s not even go there. All of Europe knows this. If you have a specific example you have in mind about a mosque in Armenia or Europe why don’t you point it out instead of a generic blanket statement. Cry in the corner? Lol...boy you must have been dropped on your head when you were a child. I was trying to keep this civil but apparently you guys can’t keep things civil.
@Binto Behanan Come on mad Before islam you need to believe one god and that time prophet. And Solomon made the temple and This temple was n't for jews.wronge brother bible was written so much later of jesus die. You don't know the history.
@@YTRabbi919-i7r Slaves of an autocratic and megalomaniac Al Lah, father of Al Azza, Al Lut and Mannat, and who was created by a child lover pedo called Mohmad
Was originally built as a christian orthodox church.a church dedicated to the sofia(wisdom) of God.Turks have so many buildings to pray.Why Hagia Sofia?they dont show respect
Get you information right before comment. Before the Cordoba mosque was built it was a Christian church "According to traditional accounts, a Visigoth church, the Catholic Christian Basilica of Saint Vincent of Lérins, originally stood on the site.[10][11][12] In 784 Abd al-Rahman I ordered the conversion of the church into a mosque and further construction, which was considerably expanded by later Muslim rulers." Same with Hagia Sophia. Originally a christian church. Shame on Turkish muslim government that hide their move by political reasons.
So let me get this straight, you are making it a mosque because that's what it was for 500 years? So why not make it what it was to begin with and for the subsequent 1000 years, a church?
Turkey own this for 600 years. If you want to change this 600 years of history, start with america who just exisr 250 years, let the european colonisers go back from america to europe, The Australians the same. And when was the last time you checked the borders of europe? Do you know how the borders of Europe was 600 years ago. or 1000 years ago? Should we also draw new borders according to the ones 1000 years ago? and aya sofya was SOLD for 20.000 gold coins by orthodox patriachry it was not converted by force. there are documents of 567 years old. Maybe your people dont have so long history to have such archives but we Turks have much longer history than just 600 years
@Zahin Shahazad Keep wanting to conquer everyone else. But, when they fight back, don't cry to the UN. I am with Serbia, with Israel, with India, 100%. Cry as much as you want later.
I regard the conversion of Churches and Mosques into museums as progress for humankind. I will leave it up to you to conclude what I think of this move.
Only a small minority of the human population of all times will be Blessed to enter the Paradise. So I’d rather be on that side. And wish you were smart enough to understand that too. Au’zubillahi minash shaitwanir rajeem.
@seid abdul Al Aqsa mosque was a synagoge before...so with your logic its "completely fine" if they make it a synagoge again...plz be smart and dont have double standards...or see all things with coloured glasses
@Zafar Hussain You can have 100 times higher quality is more important than quantity, if you understand. And even though you have bigger mosques, you still need our church. God is above and He will do justice !!!
@@audiovideo9526 😂😂😁 you as a gitan dont have any land And the true is St Sofia is a Church as it was build the truth is also that you gypsies have no land and the truth is that Aisha was just only 9 years old
Greek courts ruled against handing out 8 Turkish coup plotters to Turkey and Greece leaders refused citing respect of the court decision. 🤣🤣🤣 Greece has to respect Turkish courts too!
@A nonif the courts had ruled against the verdict, they'd have been a darling, a model and the best in the world? Using your logic then the Greek courts are obsessed with Turkey,supported a coup against the democratic elected government of Turkey. Just like how Athens is the only capital in Europe without a single mosque! Fascists
@A non so the Greek court is above board, and the Turkish court as filled up! With islamo,Taliban,etc? Istanbul,hagia Sophia are both under the sovereignty of Turkey and it's turks who will ultimately decide on it's destiny and fate. Beats me how Greece talks of civilization while Athens is the only capital in Europe without a single mosque! .
@A non if Greece is democratic as you allege, how comes Athens is the only capital in Europe without a single mosque? What happened to all the mosques in Athens and Greece? Freedom of worship!
@A non wow! You never cease to amaze! To be a great leader of Turkey one has to support Greece foreign policy? Pray tell me which policy do you mean exactly? The one in Cyprus that was to ethnically cleansed all the turks? Or you mean the one after the ww1 where the Greek army invaded Turkey massacred,looted,ethnically cleansed anyone who was not Greek? Or you mean the banning turkeys identity,culture,tradition,freedom of religion for your fellow Greeks of Turkish ancestry in Thrace etc that the EU courts called discriminatory? Dude when will you wake up and accept Turkey is independent and sees Greece as just a noisy neighbour? When will Greece prioritize it's people and economy and ditch it's obsession with Turkey?
@A non of course I am the biggest advocate of freedom of worship and all the bill of right. Blaming Turkey on hagia Sophia while churches and synagogues are plenty and have freedom of worship while Athens has no single mosque is hypocrisy
@@iworldstuff7077 you mean when islamic war mongers tried to invade europe (and those churches) then get pushed out by the crusaders? Have you been reading the history book correctly??
@@aokiaoki4238 that something is "the truth" (truth that islam is full of lies and that erdogan is coming to an end and therefore need a popular mission)
First of all it belongs to peo0le of palestine and it had been mosque over centuries until 1950s when zionism was formed and no on e can convert al aqsa into synagouge, it is a land of people pf palastine
@@faraqkul so what, you say that it belongs to the conqueror? Hagia Sophia was a church also for a long time before it became a mosque. The ottomans conquered the Byzantine empire.
And all the hypocrites : Nader Allouche returns to one of the controversial points in the life of the Muslim prophet: his sexuality. Then aged 52, Muhammad married Aïcha, 6, with whom he would have had sexual relations three years later.
@S K I'm happy that the world knows turks are praying in a Greek orthodox church, the Lord Jesus Christ looking down on them, forgive them they know not what they do. Turkey might not make it to 100. Now do your cross confess your sins and repent..:)your time is coming
@S K I don't care for the destruction that will happen while turkey is being divided but you can't stop the inevitable. With neighbors like turkey any disrespect, provocation or escalation should be repayed tenfold, it's the only language they understand
There was no conept of museum at Fatih Sultan Mehmet's time. I'm sure he'd be happy with it being a museum. I think he would make it a museum if he knew. It didn't become a museum to please the West. It become a musuem to preserve HISTORY!!
There are so many mosques in Istanbul. Was not really necessary to convert back to Mosque. May have continued as museum. But Islamists say that this was a mosque for 500 years, why it was turned to museum in the first place.
The world knows that Turkey has no history only a criminal record. Turkey is going back in time with Ottoman ideologies. Erdogan is using dictatorship tactics that other dictators have used in the past. But one thing is for certain dictators have come and fallen and Erdogan is next. SHAME SHAME SHAME. Use Hagia Sophia as a mosque but you will never get rid of the true identity of this beautiful church, you cannot erase history no matter what you say.
@@charliemarlie7780 One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. The fake coup, using religion to buy votes, turning Hagia Sophia into a mosque etc.
@@whiterabbit7799 you use the word dictatorahip loosely.. a revolution is dictated by the public/population not the government.. hence the word.. fake coup? Really! So the coup had nothing to do with the CIA and Feto Gulen? Using religion to buy votes 🤔.. of course it had nothing to with the fact Erdogan has built new infastructure new universities schools hospitals airports increased GDP by 30% invested in the youths invested heavily in manufacturing their own defence systems. As for hagia sofia it was a mosque for 500 years.. whats the big deal at least the Turks didnt smash it down unlike the west who smashed down all the mosques in spain greece armenia serbia balkans etc...
@@charliemarlie7780 First of all the information that you just mentioned comes from Turkey news that are 90% controlled by the government. Second, Turkish economy has dropped so much that your Lira is worth nothing and this down fall is because investors see Turkey as an unreliable country to invest. That is why your Dictator occupied North Syria where the oil fields are, is illegally drilling in Cyprus economical zone, trying to claim Greece's economical zone, and interfering with Lybia. That is why Constantinople has a new mayor from a different political party than Erdogan. Also, speaking about Hagia Sophia. It was build in the 7th century by Greeks, it has been a symbol of Orthodox christianity for 1000 years even the name you Turks use means Saint Sophia in Greek and you animals are turning it to a mosque. Pray if you like but know you are praying under a Christian church. Talking about the damages of Hagia Sophia you idiots have done much worse to the paintings of Jesus and the other saints.
@@whiterabbit7799 oh and you mentioned greeces economical zone.. what economy are you refering too 🤣🤣.. greece is bankrupt.. yes tukish lira is down obviously due to the wests usal games but has not really impacted their economy as bad as you think.. turkish business is actually booming..
Amir Yaghoubian Don't worry if they went to change something they made it 5 centuries before, but don't pronounce the word cathedral, coz it's not anymore, it was buyed from ur pope 500 years ago, and it stay like this until the day of judgement, ur welcome to visit it anytime out of pray's time
Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror bought the building after opening Istanbul and transformed it into a mosque, and added 4 cylindrical minarets in the Ottoman style, and huge paintings were adorned with the names of God, the Prophet Muhammad - may God bless him and grant him peace - and the adult Muslim caliphs in Arabic letters
@Sherbet Lemon no buddy I'm a Greek and I have no love for kemal and neither did he for the greeks. But I know that he wanted a secular state and the turks three decades ago wouldn't dare oppose his decisions.
You are not looking at the full picture, actually, no one is. Mr Erdogan only allowed the mosque to work as a mosque, did not bar anyone from any faith to visit the mosque, and promised to Keep Christian iconography intact, and also removed the ticket charges for visitors. Now Christian who previously used to pay to visit the mosque can visit it for free. And I am of the opinion that if people of a place convert they must have full right to convert their public places as well. Otherwise, they will lose the incentive to maintain the site and slowly it will fall into ruins. According to govt sources, turkey has a 99.8% Muslim population and allowing them to pray in the mosque will give them an incentive to maintain the structure and prevent weathering out of Public money. In my opinion, public money should never be used against the will of the people in a democratic state. I think Erdogan did the right thing and Christians should be happy with this decision. It is not whataboutery but plain reasoning. Questioning the conversion of the Mosque of Cordoba into a cathedral is not whataboutery, in my opinion, it is a good objection. And I totally support it. Both were converted in medieval times, so if one conversion is being questioned why not the other one? This is plain hypocrisy. Btw since when the coup failed and west showed their shameless support for the coup. It is understandable for them to pull investments out. I am not surprised to see west behaving west (hypocrisy) and Erdogan behaving Erdogan. It is completely on Turkish people to buy western propaganda or stand with their leader. We have two ME examples of people buying western propaganda leading eventually to the destruction of lives and property of their own.
@@manzoorathar11 IDC about the religious sovereignty. The fact that Erdogan broke Ataturk's Symbol of his Secular vision of Turkey is deeply saddening (Legal or not). the fact that Atatturk broke all religous institutions incorporated in the government (Law, education, The caliphate itself) and replaced them with Secular ones in a Predominantly religious nation is breataking.
In its ruling, the Council of State stated that Hagia Sophia as per available records was *owned by a foundation that was set up by Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II and was presented to the Muslim community as a mosque in 1453.* It also said that the title deed of the property defined the building as a “mosque” and its legal status cannot be changed. The court said that the building cannot be used in any other form excepting mosque.
This chathedral is build from 360 to 537 .... it was a church orthodox christian from the first day...... The profet Mohammed it was born in 570 ....How this bulding can be a mosque ?
The narrator, in his introduction, at the begining of the video "conveniently" forgets to say that the Hagia Sophia mosque was an Orthodox Church before it was converted to a mosque. Later Adrian Finnigan puts things in perspective.
And he also conveniently forget to tell that after ottomans conquest Christian sold the church to the sultan......proper document about this event is preserved btw........and sultan then converted it to a mosque
We live in 2020 that the world is ready to honor the original purpose of every monument. Hagia Sophia was build as a Christian Church, and operated like that for 1000 years. What was asked from Turkey was the minimum, to keep it as a Museum instead of a Christian Church. How could that be difficult ? If I was a muslim I would despise the idea of using a Christian Church as a Mosque, I would instead very much like to create my own monuments and cultural places. Turkey proves that does not live in 2020 apparently, hence not part of the civilised world.
You are not looking at the full picture, actually, no one is. Mr Erdogan only allowed the mosque to work as a mosque, did not bar anyone from any faith to visit the mosque, and promised to Keep Christian iconography intact, and also removed the ticket charges for visitors. Now Christian who previously used to pay to visit the mosque can visit it for free. And I am of the opinion that if people of a place convert they must have full right to convert their public places as well. Otherwise, they will lose the incentive to maintain the site and slowly it will fall into ruins. According to govt sources, turkey has a 99.8% Muslim population and allowing them to pray in the mosque will give them an incentive to maintain the structure and prevent weathering out of Public money. In my opinion, public money should never be used against the will of the people in a democratic state. I think Erdogan did the right thing and Christians should be happy with this decision. It is not whataboutery but plain reasoning. Questioning the conversion of the Mosque of Cordoba into a cathedral is not whataboutery, in my opinion, it is a good objection. And I totally support it. Both were converted in medieval times, so if one conversion is being questioned why not the other one? This is plain hypocrisy. Btw since when the coup failed and west showed their shameless support for the coup. It is understandable for them to pull investments out. I am not surprised to see west behaving west (hypocrisy) and Erdogan behaving Erdogan. It is completely on Turkish people to buy western propaganda or stand with their leader. We have two ME examples of people buying western propaganda leading eventually to the destruction of lives and property of their own.
Montag the_Magnificent first of all Islam isn’t horrible it’s a religion of peace that’s why I am not going to say any bad thing about Christianity 2nd Jesus is not a God but He peace be upon him was a prophet of God, its better to learn not just criticism
Turkey did'nt sabotage the builing icon like spain or India . They neither decimated the single piece of the building nor they they stopped the foreigner to visit it . Rather now they decided to open the mosque for all the tourist of the world free of cost then how can you say that this as agaist the ethics .
@@audiovideo9526 lies. Converting UNESCO site to a moqsue is not a priority. There hundreds of empty mosque but I cannot wait for the al Aqsa to be removed in Jerusalem
you tube UNESCO IS NOT TURKISH AND EVEN A RELIGIUOS CONGRESS WHY YOU WAN'T CONVERT SAN PIETRO OF ROME TO A MUSEUM, SHE'S OLDER, MORE BEAUTYFUL AND IS NOT IN A ISLAMIC LAND AYA SOFIA IS A PROPRETY, AND PROPRETY MEANS YOU MAKE OF IT WHAT EVER YOU WANT WHEN EVER YOU WANT
if i was President Recep Tayyip Erdogan i would remove all the iconic mosaics completely from the Byzantium era,not plaster over it but scrape it off completely.The Hagia Sophia belongs to Turkey.
All praise be to God. Big challenges will come for big triumph to come✨ Let those people who disagree speak for themselves, while we seek protection from Him, the best Planner.
@@ElabdSimo Constantinople is in Europe. Not the entirety of Turkey. I really don't understand how it is hypocrisy.... OP said Asian affairs. Constantinople is not in Asia. I don't understand why you brought in the EU to the conversation.
Mosques in Spain have been turned into churches,bars and night clubs( against the peace treaty) The babe i mosque of india turned into temple of idols They want to transform masjid aqsa in Jerusalem with all it’s sanctuaries as the capital Of the Zionist! We have not heard a western or eastern voice condemning these crimes But reverting The Hague Sophia to mosque exposed the ha Tired of the mentally eclipsed from the east and the west!! The Alhambra palace mosque in granada was converted to the Santa Maria cathedral Masjid qasim pasha has been Changed to Saint Michael cathedral The jami masjid of qurtuba has been converted to a cathedral Masjid ibn adees has been changed to the Salvador cathedral Masjidul murabiteen has been has been converted to the Khan khausiyya church Jami masjid of Seville has Been changed to the church of Mary No one is mourning the diversity and rich Islamic history of mosques-turned-churches In Spain that surveil and monitor Muslim tourists & stop them from praying inside That erasure is “ acceptable”. And don’t forget sultan mehmet bought it from his personal wealth from Christians and donated it to be a mosque it’s clearly stated in the title deeds on display in Hagia Sophia
Shame on Turkey, in light of this blatant aggression It’s no wonder some European nations would want to forbid the building of new mosques on their sovereign land. Do people forget that Pope John Paul II allowed for a mosque to be erected in Rome? This seems to have been a one sided generosity on our part.
Europe is mostly becoming Atheist. in UK more than 50% of British citizens say they have no religion. Only 1% of young people identify as Church of England and Atheism is growing, survey finds. 52% of British citizens say they do not belong to any religion, compared with 31% in 1983 when the BSA (British Social Attitudes) survey began tracking religious belief. The number of people identifying as Christian has decreased from 66% to 38% in the same period.~ ~ Also Eastern Germany is perhaps the least religious region in the world. Atheism is embraced by young and old, though even more so by younger Germans. A recent study called Beliefs About God Across Time and Countries found that 52.1% of people asked whether they believed in God identified themselves as atheists. Indeed, the survey was unable to find a single person under the age of 28 in eastern Germany who believed in God.~ ~ Same trend is happening outside of Europe in other Western countries like USA, Canada, & Austrailia~ ~ It's silly to believe M0hammed riding flying d0nkey, splitting moon in half then putting it back together, talking ants, human boy magically replaced by a lamb (Abraham son Ismail), evil talking snake telling Adam and Eve to eat forbidden apple, Noah's ark (gathering 2 of every animal species on Earth then putting them on a ship thousands of years ago. Estimates of how many non-marine species exist range anywhere from 5 million to 130 million! how they were fed during is another issue), jinns, Jesus magically turning water into wine, walking on water, curing lepers simply by t0uching them, Moses parting the sea, 72 virgins, ect.~ ~ Please grow up and stop believing in silly superstitions like religion. All religions, Gods, ect were created by humans. And all of them are false. There is no God and there is no afterlife. All rich devel0ped western countries are becoming Atheist. Research 'Nihilism' , 'Efilism' and 'Anti Natalism'. Life is ultimately pointless suffering (especially for the poor) and it would be better to have never been born. Not just for humans, but also for every other sentient living being that ever had the misfortune of being born
Do you believe in jinnat or not??? Its mentioned in Quran 1400 years ago and if you want proof let me know. Islam is ture religion thats why people are converting to Islam every day.
@Mohammed Ihsan The number of people who convert to Islam is offset by the number of people who leave it. About a quarter of adults who were raised Mu$lim (23%) no longer identify as members of the faith, roughly on par with the share of Americans who were raised Christian and no longer identify with Christianity (22%), according to a new analysis of the 2014 Religious Landscape Study.
Al Jazeera has taken the trouble to interview Turkish people regarding this issue. How ironic when the same could not be said on the refugee issues in Malaysia recently! (Lockdown in Malaysia). Your journalists should act professionally on whatever issues being discussed. Let us be reminded that Hagia Sophia BELONGS to Turkey, and you have absolutely NO right to question the decisions made by the Turkish President AND its people! And please, please do not imply and make controversial statements that the Turkish actions are being "condemned" by Christians around the globe or the President is seeking popularity. Shame on you Al Jazeera!
Another Mosque in Instanbul , how many Mosques do you need there ??....every time you say Agia Sofia...you say " St.Sophia "..this is the true translation..you are calling it by its Christian name !! So you are referring to a Christian saint !! Why do you call Constantinople , Instanbul? In the holy Koran it is only referred to as Constatinople.!! The holy Koran is the word of God, so you are being blasphemous by calling anything but Constantinople!!
İstanbul also have greek meaning as far as I know which is "to the city" However this actually comes from huge walls of the city and huge territory of this city Back then this big city was surrounded with walls and when you past walls and entered inside there was city center obviously So people used "I am going to İstanbul" term which meant "I am going into city or city center" and eventually with time local folk(including every ethnicities) started to use "İstanbul" as city term instead of Konstantinopole
islam doesnt believe in such things. its a political cult wanting to capture everything thing that belongs to some other religion. beware europeans, islam is near you and inside your countries. 😂
@@AK-xv4sv it doesnt matter what you think. its what the most of your community thinks. in present day, all the conflicts across the globe.. one side is islam always and sometimes both the sides.
Mosques in Spain have been turned into churches,bars and night clubs( against the peace treaty) The babe i mosque of india turned into temple of idols They want to transform masjid aqsa in Jerusalem with all it’s sanctuaries as the capital Of the Zionist! We have not heard a western or eastern voice condemning these crimes But reverting The Hague Sophia to mosque exposed the ha Tired of the mentally eclipsed from the east and the west!! The Alhambra palace mosque in granada was converted to the Santa Maria cathedral Masjid qasim pasha has been Changed to Saint Michael cathedral The jami masjid of qurtuba has been converted to a cathedral Masjid ibn adees has been changed to the Salvador cathedral Masjidul murabiteen has been has been converted to the Khan khausiyya church Jami masjid of Seville has Been changed to the church of Mary No one is mourning the diversity and rich Islamic history of mosques-turned-churches In Spain that surveil and monitor Muslim tourists & stop them from praying inside That erasure is “ acceptable”. And don’t forget sultan mehmet bought it from his personal wealth from Christians and donated it to be a mosque it’s clearly stated in the title deeds on display in Hagia Sophia
@@ProfessorGlasgow all what you say is word of mouth... It was a symbol of religious tug of war.. in 1930 it was made symbol for humanity.. now it's just a mosque .. and yes .. humanity is bigger than any religion.. I see secularism dying in turkey.
@@ProfessorGlasgow Two wrongs don't make a right. I oppose the conversion of Babri masjid in India to a Hindu temple, and I oppose the conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque.
PAOKmadness1926 Bla bla bla And about mutah or however you prefer to call it, i remember that your morther didn't disagree, oh god his happinnes was priceless
Do you mean BUY it? In Italy lots of Churches sold as HOTEL. It is DIFFERENT cases! Hagia Sophia cured and cared by UNESCO. It is part of HISTORY. But if you are okay with it, If Israel convert Al Aqsa to SYNAGOGUE, i wish no TURKS go to street and set a war. Time to COMMIT to your own political values is IMPORTANT in this era. RIGHT, Turks?
@Crow29Darkness Jerusalem is not capital of israel, only the west recognise Israel. Other countries recognise Palestine. So your comparison don't make sense.
Religion of Peace creating peace again . Sahih Muslim 1 33 The Messenger of Allah said "I have been commanded to fight against people till they testify that there is no god but Allah, that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah, and they establish prayer and pay zakat.
You do realise that the Hagia Sofia was originally a Christian church.Your comment shows you are uninformed. Hagia Sophia was converted to a mosque by the conquering ottomans.
@@IAT1964 Dear I know all of these bro I think you are a Christian..... One point clear that I am not support this changing place of worship.... This comment was a tunt or mocking to so called secular Turk who criticized India for converting 500 year old mosque to temple.......where the mosque was built by destroying temple..... I think you understand my point clearly and what I want to say.....
Hagia sophia was built by Christians so why not give it back to Christians?? If not for ottoman Turks would it not still be in Christian hands?? We're Christians are allowed to pray in hagia sophia which was built by Christians???.... This guy don't know history...
I guess you don't know the history bcz ottoman sultan bought it from christian when he took over the land...there is a proper documentation preserved.....christian cannot claim that hagia sofiya belongs to them .......... when sultan converted it to mosque he preserved it, he didn't destroy the interior, portaits
RORIK Bluetooth The turks who are already there are enough to do what they like to do, u have lost the possibility to reverse it, but before to convert al aqsa why u don't rebuy the anatolian mole of torino as u have always do, buying history with sleal money
Long life turkey long life erdogan 600 procent support of Portugal 🇵🇹. I am as a Portugese come soon to pray in the aya Sophia mosque. It’s your right your country. Ataturk umparaliasm are over!! 🇹🇷 🇵🇹
End of Turkey Saint Paisios said it and his feast day was on July 12th how interesting the time of Orthodoxy is nearly here God Bless you hope you service. 👍
@@HomeUA-cam921 please do not put my flag next to Pakistan flag. İ take it as a big insult. Our values are so different, how women being tortured, how Christian, hindu minorities being tortured are a big shame. So do not put my flag next to Pakistan. We have nothing in cammon
It was ok for Spain,Greece and the Balkans to destroy Muslim heritage site but atleast in Turkey which has no history of destroying any Christian heritage site are now been questioned? Really? The double standard is another level. Shm
Hagia Sophia was SOLD by the Christians themselves when Mehmet II took Constantinople. Even though Sultan didn’t need to pay for it, he had the city, anything inside the city rightfully belonged to him. But he still bought Hagia Sophia so the monument rightly belonged to the Turks. Now what the Turks do with their OWN buildings is THEIR business.
Gol Kas The West have been colonising an destroying countries for centuries and now you are crying about them changing things within their own country? Grab some tissues lol 😂. When you don’t so what the West says you are a dictator the West is the biggest dictator. What right do they have? Are they international police?
You cannot expect it to be the way as it was when it was still Museum sir, never and also, why compare it to the cathedral of Paris. Which is a museum at the same time a place of worship. Here's the thing., It has always been a Christian church. Period.
Why should Turkey consult with anyone for their internal discussion? Its their internal issue. Mosques in Spain's Muslim ruled region were converted into churches.. the pope wasn't pained by those decisions.
The spokesman is very convincing. If anybody is allowed to visit the monument and there is no destruction of any part of it, I can't understand the hue and cry about it.
Peace and Love, Tolerance and Respect, Kindness and Humility should be the only mission of all religions. Most likely it is, but Most of the religious and political establishments and leaders are using religion for their own benefits; power, fame, money. It is said but it is true for all RELIGIONS.
Well said. No one is complaining about the cordoba cathedral or seville cathedral where Columbus is buried although they were originally mosques. Where was the international community when the Babri Mosque in India was demolished? Where is the international community when the status and sovereignty of masjid al-aqsa is threatened every day? The Muslim world stands with Turkey. May our ummah return back to a position of honor.
Ehh... The Seville Cathedral was not a Mosque. It was built as a replacement to the Mosque that had been Christianized. The Cordoba Cathedral was originally a smaller church. And it was 800 years ago. That is why not many are talking about it.
The Church (Yeah I said it) is older than the religion of Islam... It served as a church twice as long as it was a Mosque. By no metric should the Hagia Sophia be a Mosque.
Uh, did you forget that the land was conquered?
@@fanjarwijaksono552 israel also conquered your land
Palestine
@@fanjarwijaksono552 oh but i thought conquering was a bad thing guess only when jews and christians do it
@@spartanx9293 uh no, that's why we fought the crussaders and won. Did you know that?
Fanjar Wijaksono the land, originally called “Anatolia” and a Greek speaking country, should not have been conquered in the first place.
Just like all the other lands that has been conquered, was forcefully immoral, by this it caused curses and later defeat that has been proved.
Ottoman Empire was dissolute and defeated in WW1 and later (Turkey) in WW2.
Can you imagine that church is older than Islam???!!!!!!!!
Islam was there dont just speak about what you dont know
@@nbaboy3306 why do we have pre Islamic history???? In this case pre means before for your case
Are you stupid church is older then islam pleace go do some re-search 😂😂 ..and you mean mosque now
Islam has always been islam. It's the religion of all the prophets and the religion of the one and only Creator of the universe and everything in it. Islam is eternal. You can call it what you want but it's always been there.
jugabugaful where is the proof of that? You know, before the Qur’an? Something we’d call external evidence would be good.
it's a bit embarrassing when the land you stand on, and the historic monument you cherish doesn't belong to you and weren't built by your ancestors.
Turks destroyed the Byzantine Empire, we do what we please
Its been a part of Turkey for years not yours
@Silmarrillion123 QQ
MH Codes Fantastic reply! Masha’Allah
@obsidianstatue
There is a lot of historic monuments, Turks cherish build by their ancestors they also cherish a monuments "symbolism of conquest that ended Eastern Rome Empire" such as "Hagia Sophia" some also cherish butthurted comments like above. 500 years old conquests get over it.
Where were the UN and UNESCO when the Americans and nato bombed and destroyed the hundreds of heritage sites in Iraq. Are they going to restore them
Troy Dield It goes to show you what the propagandists tell them!
@Troy Dield speak if you know something,or shut up,if you know nothing,Isis did not bomb anywhere,since they did not have any air forces,plus when IRAQ was being bombed,there was no Isis
@Houston Rockets learn English
Kuwait invite them
Troy Dield everybody should know by now who isis was created by
Fun fact: Hagia Sophia is older than Islam.
My grandmother is older than Israel
Fun fact, Islam is older than you lol
@@mr.d4834 but he's not being converted to a mosque.
geler geler: The Red Indians in America are oldest than white Americans. Vacate America.
@Hamid Hussein Wtf. 😂😂😂
Did the Indian Government discuss the destruction of the Babri Mosque with UNESCO? Or the Supreme Court?
Very selective issues
Before babri mosque there was hindu temple
@Sherbet Lemon Plenty of evidence of Babri Masjid having been built on a Hindu temple. So you argument of comparing Babri with Hagia Sophia is an argument of false equivalence. The supreme court of India recognises the demolition of Babri to be wrong ard the people responsible for it are being tried. You can also find mosques having been built on vandalised Hindu temples in Varanasi.
are u aware of what UNESCO is...and did you know that babri Mosque in not in world heritage list.. now you must accept if muslim majority country can do this why not india it is also hindu majority .....
Many mosques in India has to be demolished. They build above Hindu temples
Can Christians pray there as it was a church before? This man is deceitful comparing europe’s treatment of islam and mosque!!! Number of mosques in Europe!!! Financial support from the governments.
This magnificent Church was built 33 years before even Prophet Muhammad was born. Keep that in mind.
Before it was Greek place of worship keep it also in mind
@@basitali8978 so technically it should be converted into Greek place of worship not mosque
@Battal Gazi I actually support the decision..i dont have problem with it. The same way I support Israel. It doesn't matter who owned in the past...it only matters who owns it now.
I guess you don't have enough wisdom to feel the difference between something to own and forced occupation...
By Darwin's theory::::
Humans beings transformed from animals with time..
By your logic:: humans must transformed into animals as they were before animals.
WOW
Your logic appreciateable.
remember the Bamyan Buddhist Statues destroyed in the name of Islam by Taliban?
Remember thousands of churches in north africa, middle east and some part of Asia also destroyed in the name of Islam?
@@neneklampir6664 you hypocrite,how many mosques are. Destroyed in Christian countries. How do you stare at hijab. You hate it . Keep crying now
Where is that?
@swastik mishra savage 😂😂 ola hu uber (then a blast)
Descendants of people who built the statues destroyed it.
Many churches in northern Europe are built upon Nordic burial sites.
God bless those people who destroyed Jewish churches built on their ancestor's graves.
No noise whatsoever when mosques were destroyed in Spain
Were these Mosques originally built as Mosques ? I guess not, right ?
Sornok don’t you understand history
@@auditingaustraliagroup8959 I guess you do not understand English then, you cannot answer to a question with a question.
Sornok work on your vocabulary dumbass
And in India (Babri Masjid) too
Greece spain and serbia converted mosques to churches and nobody critisizes them.what a hipocricy
when??
@@dimitristriantafillou593 why u keep asking when??... justify your reason of when?.... i want to change it now so what??.... what u want to say about that again?
@@MajidKhan-ef2zy u live 1000 years ago in the age of ignorance or do u live in 2020 in the age of tolerance...if the jews change the al Aqsa mosque because they can...u will be at arms...dont u see that this is double standards
@@dimitristriantafillou593 If they could they would change it and the west wouldn't care so why should we care about you and your stupid feelings ?
I want to make a very different opinion
By the time hagia sophia was converted back to mosque, the president endorgan indirectly opened the forbidden chapter about religion superiority. We know well that Hagia sophia was considered as a witness of the war between ottoman and byzantine. The decision of the turkey president in 1934 by making hagia sophia as a museum actually is enough to close the book of religion war that happened for centuries, so people around world can remember hagia sophia as a symbol of peace. Now, only time can tell whether hagia sophia can still hold that symbol of peace
Wish that page remained closed forever...
و لو يا حليم!!! خدنا بحلمك، انتا بتصدق ادعائات الحزب القومي العلماني التركي،بعد لهلق مش عارف انو أأمن للمسيحيي ناس بتعرف الله من ناس علمانية ما في رحمة بقلوبها، ليش بلبنان شو خرب بيتنا غير توطاية راسنا للغريب، شو بدنا بالغريب، بحياتك بتفضل جارك بزغرتا يكون مسلم و لا يكون شيوعي أو حتى بروتيستانت؟!!!!
God bless the Turkish people... They have finally decided to go to a Christian Church!
When church sells haggy baba is ready to buy
Turkish becoming Christians by going to Hagia Sophia
Definitely a political narrow mindedness. He should grow up and not be so childish like the Arab leaders.
Do you mind saying the same for Spanish and Indian rulers.
@@UndoEverything Not at all. But we should compete to be far better because we are claiming to be true belivers.
@@mostaq9779 respect
What about the thousands of mosque of Spain?
Can anyone want to answer?
What about thousands of temple in india like qutub minar.
You can lie but history won't...
Read the history first..
Darwin's theory::::
Humans transformed from animals..
So by your reply human must transformed into animals as they were animals before...
Lol
@@user-ek6ts5ew9p. 😂 😂 😂 😂. Out of contest
@@zuhaibkhan6597 Why are you circumambulating, touching and kissing a Shiva linga in Mecca?
Yes, if sophia build as a mosque no problem but sophia is a cathedral its better to return the real owner as a symbol of peace to the world.
Don Taytayon yeah, but what about the Mosques 🕌 in Spain that are converted to churches??? And Museums ???
What do you say about that as peace?
Don’t be biased.
@Yunus Cakir can israel make Al Aqsa mosque to a Solomon temple??
@seid abdul isn't that double standards??
the ottoman empire didn't die ..we were just between commercials........
The sultan had purchased the cathedral from the orthodox christians after the conquest. The papers of the agreement were still preserved and when it was produced in the Apex court it was ruled accordingly.
@Tomsie bro if he would have occupied it forcefully which ideally he should have done after the conquest then too your statement would not have changed right??
U decide bro should such pre conceived notions be entertained ?
@@AmanShaikh-pc3ps Religion means to reconnect with God, the Absolute Truth. You think religion means to try to play God yourself. Indeed, you're insane for a reason.
@Tomsie the hagia Sophia builders sprouted from the Anatolian ground?
@Crow29Darkness the builders didn't pay nothing after conquering the place!
Rajarsi...only If Faith (iman) had been poured in your heart...not the ecstasy of mystical interpretations which u think is the way to reconnect with God.
You did not create yourself yet you claim to have your own different ways in life to connect to God is that not “insane”.
1453 lives again it's about Time... it should never have been a museum who ever saw a museum with 4 minarets ...has anyone ever seen a church as a museum ?..
It is a church. Like we still upkeep and maintain your mosques so should you keep the churches. But this is not what you have done thus far. It says a lot about your so called "religion". You have the mosque next to Hagia Sofia, why do you need that specific church?
Yes in the UK and we have former christian churches turned into mosques.
@@Linda43 No, no it's not. The actual temple mount is below it. The temple mount was the quarters of King David and Soloman (PBUT)
Change the sign on the door it matters not, all the Abrahamic religions serve the same evil false god.
@Crow29Darkness yea you cant
The spokeperson of Erdogan is superb.
Really
Ertugrul gazi come back.. insha'Allah.
Or another syria
Bekir Karabulut you People are puppies off USA and Israel nothing else
@@ronnysingh9423 don't worry we will provide atomic arms if there anything happens Pakistan also sports turkey from anyways
Aali145 Aali145 I love turkey too I have lot off Turkish friends I don’t mean that Turkey is a weak country but there government is just following what modi butcher doing in india
So you don’t talk about help anyone because without American permission even your prime minister can’t go to washroom lol 😂
🤣🤣😆 Jihadii fool get some education
MAKE TURKISH EMPIRE GREAT AGAIN!
Hahahahahah
Haha nice joke haha CLOWN
@A non You play too much games
Israel can take Jerusalem if Turkey can take a Christian church Israel can do what they like
Turkey has way to much pride for their spokesmen to admit they have national issues. "I don't know where you get your facts from, but we're doing better than everyone else."
Sounds like Florida. Vain stupidity exists everywhere.
Stop visiting that location..Down with bigotry.
Look at your own land
Arshi Khan THIS IS OUR OWN LAND YOU FOOL! THE VERY LAND YOU CLAIM AS “ISTANBUL” IS MADE BY EUROPEANS. You can live there but don’t imply that it’s yours because it isn’t
Mosques in Spain have been turned into churches,bars and night clubs( against the peace treaty)
The babe i mosque of india turned into temple of idols
They want to transform masjid aqsa in Jerusalem with all it’s sanctuaries as the capital
Of the Zionist!
We have not heard a western or eastern voice condemning these crimes
But reverting The Hague Sophia to mosque exposed the ha
Tired of the mentally eclipsed from the east and the west!!
The Alhambra palace mosque in granada was converted to the Santa Maria cathedral
Masjid qasim pasha has been Changed to Saint Michael cathedral
The jami masjid of qurtuba has been converted to a cathedral
Masjid ibn adees has been changed to the Salvador cathedral
Masjidul murabiteen has been has been converted to the Khan khausiyya church
Jami masjid of Seville has Been changed to the church of Mary
No one is mourning the diversity and rich Islamic history of mosques-turned-churches
In Spain that surveil and monitor Muslim tourists & stop them from praying inside
That erasure is “ acceptable”.
And don’t forget sultan mehmet bought it from his personal wealth from Christians and donated it to be a mosque it’s clearly stated in the title deeds on display in Hagia Sophia
@@rossgaris7026 you bought it? Or you converted sea into land... I don't understand what do you mean "OUR LAND"
@@ProfessorGlasgow Islam invaded 3/5th of Christian lands in its 1st 100 years. Islam is not religion of peace... it is religion of war and control.
Mehmet Celik say that Turkey doesn’t destroy churches. Maybe he should go back and see what they did and do to Armenian churches there. Oh ya, I forgot, Turkey writes their history their own way so all that isn’t written or captured in record for the world to see. What a load of bs! Just go and look at city of Ani in Turkey (city of 1000 churches). See what the Turks did to that city.
Sarkis Isayan
And what about the Mosqs in Armenia? How many Mosqs do we have in Armenia? And what about the Ottoman architecture that was in Europe and nowadays Armenia? You can cry in your corner, please feel free to do so!
Oguz Han
Oguz Han
Since you are so aware of how many mosques there are in Armenia, why don’t you tell us? Armenia is an Orthodox Christian nation. It has been for over 1700 years. There was never a conversation to Islam for Armenians to build Mosques. There was no reason. Ottomans did nothing but destroy and plunder nations, let’s not even go there. All of Europe knows this. If you have a specific example you have in mind about a mosque in Armenia or Europe why don’t you point it out instead of a generic blanket statement. Cry in the corner? Lol...boy you must have been dropped on your head when you were a child. I was trying to keep this civil but apparently you guys can’t keep things civil.
Why everyone is talking about this.When US gift Jerusalem to Israel then no one talk about that.huh?
@Binto Behanan Who Make Jerusalem temple it's solomon who was a muslim.
@Binto Behanan Come on mad Before islam you need to believe one god and that time prophet. And Solomon made the temple and This temple was n't for jews.wronge brother bible was written so much later of jesus die.
You don't know the history.
@Binto Behanan Ha Ha Ha you write a
Nice Joke.We Are Slave Of God.
@@YTRabbi919-i7r Slaves of an autocratic and megalomaniac Al Lah, father of Al Azza, Al Lut and Mannat, and who was created by a child lover pedo called Mohmad
@@mabel5466 Slave of God.
Was originally built as , Cortoba mosque was in 2010 change to cathedral
Why no one that time protested about it ?
And it had a church before that.
Was originally built as a christian orthodox church.a church dedicated to the sofia(wisdom) of God.Turks have so many buildings to pray.Why Hagia Sofia?they dont show respect
Get you information right before comment. Before the Cordoba mosque was built it was a Christian church
"According to traditional accounts, a Visigoth church, the Catholic Christian Basilica of Saint Vincent of Lérins, originally stood on the site.[10][11][12] In 784 Abd al-Rahman I ordered the conversion of the church into a mosque and further construction, which was considerably expanded by later Muslim rulers."
Same with Hagia Sophia. Originally a christian church.
Shame on Turkish muslim government that hide their move by political reasons.
@@panolete You lied.It's purely Muslim and Arabic building not Roman building.
This spokesperson of Erdogan have roasted this al Jazeera anchor 🤣
He taunted to west of many things so knight
U r a raducalist.... U always think u r right
the Ibrahim thing is not really answering the questions if u pay attention. and i say thing cause he is a robot of erdogan. like most Turkish
Haha... bhai mirchi lag gayi usko ...
@@audiovideo9526 at least i have freedom of speech without fear of imprisonment
We love you turki Allah with you mr president
"Allah is with him" or "may Allah be with him"?
If it's the first then I ll ask you your source please.
@@Sofian375 im sure Allah will never leave you alone unless you shirk.
😂😂😂🤡
the ottoman empire didn't die ..we were just between commercials
When media will rise voice for the qurtuba mosque in spain.when UN will decide as world Heritage the qurtuba mosque.
So let me get this straight, you are making it a mosque because that's what it was for 500 years? So why not make it what it was to begin with and for the subsequent 1000 years, a church?
Because Jihad is expansionary. You are thinking of "FAIRNESS", which is contrary to Jihad.
Turkey own this for 600 years. If you want to change this 600 years of history, start with america who just exisr 250 years, let the european colonisers go back from america to europe, The Australians the same. And when was the last time you checked the borders of europe? Do you know how the borders of Europe was 600 years ago. or 1000 years ago? Should we also draw new borders according to the ones 1000 years ago? and aya sofya was SOLD for 20.000 gold coins by orthodox patriachry it was not converted by force. there are documents of 567 years old. Maybe your people dont have so long history to have such archives but we Turks have much longer history than just 600 years
@Zahin Shahazad Keep wanting to conquer everyone else. But, when they fight back, don't cry to the UN. I am with Serbia, with Israel, with India, 100%. Cry as much as you want later.
I regard the conversion of Churches and Mosques into museums as progress for humankind. I will leave it up to you to conclude what I think of this move.
I am a Muslim and I agree with you so much
Only a small minority of the human population of all times will be Blessed to enter the Paradise. So I’d rather be on that side. And wish you were smart enough to understand that too. Au’zubillahi minash shaitwanir rajeem.
Andre XX But nice try dude.. I know what your intentions were.
Michael Scottland which side? The side of playing politics with holy places?
@@michaelscottland4239 My intentions are entirely noble - a world without any religion.
This is a church ....and this will be a church ..you can not disturbe others religion
Come on, let's talk about Spain then, Spain too has converted mosques into churches
Good.
do you mean now in 2020 (as turkey did) or 1000 years ago because there is a difference we dont live 1000 years ago...
@seid abdul Al Aqsa mosque was a synagoge before...so with your logic its "completely fine" if they make it a synagoge again...plz be smart and dont have double standards...or see all things with coloured glasses
@seid abdul,
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it wasn't a church before it was mosque
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It was a Christian cathedral. Which is a type of big church.
@Crazy Swayze Your comment is like an oasis in the middle of the desert. Well said Sir!
Turkey has no history of destroying"while they have eliminated everything for half a millenium
@Zafar Hussain Saint Sofia 1455 years Turkey 567 years.
You will never be able to build a church like Saint Sophia.
God will do justice
I don't new before that romanians beleive in captain marvel and superman
Alex Vlaxos
And u will see the same for the second half of this millenium, so buy as u can popcorn and soda
@Zafar Hussain You can have 100 times higher quality is more important than quantity, if you understand. And even though you have bigger mosques, you still need our church.
God is above and He will do justice !!!
@Zafar Hussain i dont understand you
If the pope is so pained by that decision let him revoke the status of the great mosque of Cordoba in Spain.
Ignorance doesn t help you , if you dont now ,shut up and learn
@@audiovideo9526 shut up and swallow
@@audiovideo9526 😂😂😁 you as a gitan dont have any land
And the true is St Sofia is a Church as it was build the truth is also that you gypsies have no land and the truth is that Aisha was just only 9 years old
Again, the truth hurts, doesn't it, Muhammad?
@@audiovideo9526 If you like your sister 9 years old (like your profet ) you can try also with your mother..
Greek courts ruled against handing out 8 Turkish coup plotters to Turkey and Greece leaders refused citing respect of the court decision.
🤣🤣🤣
Greece has to respect Turkish courts too!
@A nonif the courts had ruled against the verdict, they'd have been a darling, a model and the best in the world? Using your logic then the Greek courts are obsessed with Turkey,supported a coup against the democratic elected government of Turkey. Just like how Athens is the only capital in Europe without a single mosque! Fascists
@A non so the Greek court is above board, and the Turkish court as filled up! With islamo,Taliban,etc?
Istanbul,hagia Sophia are both under the sovereignty of Turkey and it's turks who will ultimately decide on it's destiny and fate.
Beats me how Greece talks of civilization while Athens is the only capital in Europe without a single mosque! .
@A non if Greece is democratic as you allege, how comes Athens is the only capital in Europe without a single mosque? What happened to all the mosques in Athens and Greece? Freedom of worship!
@A non wow! You never cease to amaze!
To be a great leader of Turkey one has to support Greece foreign policy? Pray tell me which policy do you mean exactly? The one in Cyprus that was to ethnically cleansed all the turks? Or you mean the one after the ww1 where the Greek army invaded Turkey massacred,looted,ethnically cleansed anyone who was not Greek? Or you mean the banning turkeys identity,culture,tradition,freedom of religion for your fellow Greeks of Turkish ancestry in Thrace etc that the EU courts called discriminatory?
Dude when will you wake up and accept Turkey is independent and sees Greece as just a noisy neighbour?
When will Greece prioritize it's people and economy and ditch it's obsession with Turkey?
@A non of course I am the biggest advocate of freedom of worship and all the bill of right.
Blaming Turkey on hagia Sophia while churches and synagogues are plenty and have freedom of worship while Athens has no single mosque is hypocrisy
Unfortunately we cannot see the same thing because the mosque have been destroyed.
What a statement by mehmet celik 👏👏
Whats new.. Muslim will be muslim.. Its only a matter of time till their true colour show..
Where you are at the time of spain mosque ,Jerusalem and and indian babri mosque
@@iworldstuff7077 you mean when islamic war mongers tried to invade europe (and those churches) then get pushed out by the crusaders? Have you been reading the history book correctly??
It seem Turkish are afraid of something and they became paranoid .
@@aokiaoki4238 that something is "the truth" (truth that islam is full of lies and that erdogan is coming to an end and therefore need a popular mission)
What will happen if Israel changes Al-Asqa Mosque to a Synagouge? it's an internal matter after all.
First of all it belongs to peo0le of palestine and it had been mosque over centuries until 1950s when zionism was formed and no on e can convert al aqsa into synagouge, it is a land of people pf palastine
@@faraqkul so what, you say that it belongs to the conqueror? Hagia Sophia was a church also for a long time before it became a mosque. The ottomans conquered the Byzantine empire.
Long live Turkiye!! Warriors of Islam and the Ummah.
And all the hypocrites : Nader Allouche returns to one of the controversial points in the life of the Muslim prophet: his sexuality. Then aged 52, Muhammad married Aïcha, 6, with whom he would have had sexual relations three years later.
Do your cross when entering the church lol its never too late
@Avinash Kumar Greece is going to remake kemals mom's house a bordello...we will turn the mosques into pig shacks
@S K I'm happy that the world knows turks are praying in a Greek orthodox church, the Lord Jesus Christ looking down on them, forgive them they know not what they do. Turkey might not make it to 100. Now do your cross confess your sins and repent..:)your time is coming
@S K I don't care for the destruction that will happen while turkey is being divided but you can't stop the inevitable. With neighbors like turkey any disrespect, provocation or escalation should be repayed tenfold, it's the only language they understand
There was no conept of museum at Fatih Sultan Mehmet's time. I'm sure he'd be happy with it being a museum. I think he would make it a museum if he knew. It didn't become a museum to please the West. It become a musuem to preserve HISTORY!!
Sonny Khlane
That's not true, it was an evangelic propose to mustafa kemal
Well at least we dont have to keep pretending that islam has respect for other religions anymore.
East is east and west is west and never the two shall twain.
until of course one discovers that the earth is spherical... in which case east is west depending on where you look from.
POPPY Calliope
Of corse, ur own personal version of west
Esben M
I like ur answer, acceptable
There are so many mosques in Istanbul. Was not really necessary to convert back to Mosque. May have continued as museum. But Islamists say that this was a mosque for 500 years, why it was turned to museum in the first place.
looks like a mosque
It looks like one because Ottomans decided to copy it. Also the minarets, which did not exist until it became a mosque.
Allah u Akbar! (Allah is the greatest)
Wrong Yahweh is the greatest allah is tbe greatest of decievers
The world knows that Turkey has no history only a criminal record. Turkey is going back in time with Ottoman ideologies. Erdogan is using dictatorship tactics that other dictators have used in the past. But one thing is for certain dictators have come and fallen and Erdogan is next. SHAME SHAME SHAME. Use Hagia Sophia as a mosque but you will never get rid of the true identity of this beautiful church, you cannot erase history no matter what you say.
Dictator ? How... facts please.. i would like to know what dictatorship you're talking about
@@charliemarlie7780 One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. The fake coup, using religion to buy votes, turning Hagia Sophia into a mosque etc.
@@whiterabbit7799 you use the word dictatorahip loosely.. a revolution is dictated by the public/population not the government.. hence the word.. fake coup? Really! So the coup had nothing to do with the CIA and Feto Gulen? Using religion to buy votes 🤔.. of course it had nothing to with the fact Erdogan has built new infastructure new universities schools hospitals airports increased GDP by 30% invested in the youths invested heavily in manufacturing their own defence systems. As for hagia sofia it was a mosque for 500 years.. whats the big deal at least the Turks didnt smash it down unlike the west who smashed down all the mosques in spain greece armenia serbia balkans etc...
@@charliemarlie7780 First of all the information that you just mentioned comes from Turkey news that are 90% controlled by the government. Second, Turkish economy has dropped so much that your Lira is worth nothing and this down fall is because investors see Turkey as an unreliable country to invest. That is why your Dictator occupied North Syria where the oil fields are, is illegally drilling in Cyprus economical zone, trying to claim Greece's economical zone, and interfering with Lybia. That is why Constantinople has a new mayor from a different political party than Erdogan. Also, speaking about Hagia Sophia. It was build in the 7th century by Greeks, it has been a symbol of Orthodox christianity for 1000 years even the name you Turks use means Saint Sophia in Greek and you animals are turning it to a mosque. Pray if you like but know you are praying under a Christian church. Talking about the damages of Hagia Sophia you idiots have done much worse to the paintings of Jesus and the other saints.
@@whiterabbit7799 oh and you mentioned greeces economical zone.. what economy are you refering too 🤣🤣.. greece is bankrupt.. yes tukish lira is down obviously due to the wests usal games but has not really impacted their economy as bad as you think.. turkish business is actually booming..
Alhamdulillah! So happy that I now can pray in Aya Sofia!
Change the name of the building before you go pray there. See my post 30 min before ;)
bs of lk
I'd sooner see it destroyed then perverted with prayers to your false god
Lucky you...i am jelous
the ottoman empire didn't die ..we were just between commercials
I hope they don’t change anything inside it was a cathedral & it stay for ever
They will cover the images , with light or something during prayers.
Amir Yaghoubian
Don't worry if they went to change something they made it 5 centuries before, but don't pronounce the word cathedral, coz it's not anymore, it was buyed from ur pope 500 years ago, and it stay like this until the day of judgement, ur welcome to visit it anytime out of pray's time
Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror bought the building after opening Istanbul and transformed it into a mosque, and added 4 cylindrical minarets in the Ottoman style, and huge paintings were adorned with the names of God, the Prophet Muhammad - may God bless him and grant him peace - and the adult Muslim caliphs in Arabic letters
After they slautered all the christian people who flet inside the church!
The turks in the 90s wouldn't even dare to consider dispute Kemal. Now they just obey their new sultan
@Sherbet Lemon no buddy I'm a Greek and I have no love for kemal and neither did he for the greeks. But I know that he wanted a secular state and the turks three decades ago wouldn't dare oppose his decisions.
@Sherbet Lemon such a shame that turkey is no longer a secular state
Big mistake ... curse on the 1 who touches a stone there to make a mosque from a christian cathedral 🙏 Atatürk turns in hes grave...
and you call yourself a christian? cursing humans because of heaps of stone? is that what you learnt from christianity?
Keep crying
The whataboutery is high in the comments section.
You are not looking at the full picture, actually, no one is. Mr Erdogan only allowed the mosque to work as a mosque, did not bar anyone from any faith to visit the mosque, and promised to Keep Christian iconography intact, and also removed the ticket charges for visitors. Now Christian who previously used to pay to visit the mosque can visit it for free.
And I am of the opinion that if people of a place convert they must have full right to convert their public places as well. Otherwise, they will lose the incentive to maintain the site and slowly it will fall into ruins. According to govt sources, turkey has a 99.8% Muslim population and allowing them to pray in the mosque will give them an incentive to maintain the structure and prevent weathering out of Public money. In my opinion, public money should never be used against the will of the people in a democratic state. I think Erdogan did the right thing and Christians should be happy with this decision.
It is not whataboutery but plain reasoning.
Questioning the conversion of the Mosque of Cordoba into a cathedral is not whataboutery, in my opinion, it is a good objection. And I totally support it.
Both were converted in medieval times, so if one conversion is being questioned why not the other one?
This is plain hypocrisy. Btw since when the coup failed and west showed their shameless support for the coup. It is understandable for them to pull investments out.
I am not surprised to see west behaving west (hypocrisy) and Erdogan behaving Erdogan. It is completely on Turkish people to buy western propaganda or stand with their leader.
We have two ME examples of people buying western propaganda leading eventually to the destruction of lives and property of their own.
@@manzoorathar11 IDC about the religious sovereignty. The fact that Erdogan broke Ataturk's Symbol of his Secular vision of Turkey is deeply saddening (Legal or not).
the fact that Atatturk broke all religous institutions incorporated in the government (Law, education, The caliphate itself) and replaced them with Secular ones in a Predominantly religious nation is breataking.
In its ruling, the Council of State stated that Hagia Sophia as per available records was *owned by a foundation that was set up by Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II and was presented to the Muslim community as a mosque in 1453.* It also said that the title deed of the property defined the building as a “mosque” and its legal status cannot be changed. The court said that the building cannot be used in any other form excepting mosque.
This chathedral is build from 360 to 537 .... it was a church orthodox christian from the first day......
The profet Mohammed it was born in 570 ....How this bulding can be a mosque ?
The fact that it is open to everyone, I am pleased. I was sad when the announcements was made. Adrian .. made it a political debate
The narrator, in his introduction, at the begining of the video "conveniently" forgets to say that the Hagia Sophia mosque was an Orthodox Church before it was converted to a mosque.
Later Adrian Finnigan puts things in perspective.
And he also conveniently forget to tell that after ottomans conquest Christian sold the church to the sultan......proper document about this event is preserved btw........and sultan then converted it to a mosque
We live in 2020 that the world is ready to honor the original purpose of every monument. Hagia Sophia was build as a Christian Church, and operated like that for 1000 years. What was asked from Turkey was the minimum, to keep it as a Museum instead of a Christian Church. How could that be difficult ? If I was a muslim I would despise the idea of using a Christian Church as a Mosque, I would instead very much like to create my own monuments and cultural places.
Turkey proves that does not live in 2020 apparently, hence not part of the civilised world.
A very good and talented spokesperson 😊 Turkish must be proud of you Sir 👍😊
Shameless intolerant Nation
You are not looking at the full picture, actually, no one is. Mr Erdogan only allowed the mosque to work as a mosque, did not bar anyone from any faith to visit the mosque, and promised to Keep Christian iconography intact, and also removed the ticket charges for visitors. Now Christian who previously used to pay to visit the mosque can visit it for free.
And I am of the opinion that if people of a place convert they must have full right to convert their public places as well. Otherwise, they will lose the incentive to maintain the site and slowly it will fall into ruins. According to govt sources, turkey has a 99.8% Muslim population and allowing them to pray in the mosque will give them an incentive to maintain the structure and prevent weathering out of Public money. In my opinion, public money should never be used against the will of the people in a democratic state. I think Erdogan did the right thing and Christians should be happy with this decision.
It is not whataboutery but plain reasoning.
Questioning the conversion of the Mosque of Cordoba into a cathedral is not whataboutery, in my opinion, it is a good objection. And I totally support it.
Both were converted in medieval times, so if one conversion is being questioned why not the other one?
This is plain hypocrisy. Btw since when the coup failed and west showed their shameless support for the coup. It is understandable for them to pull investments out.
I am not surprised to see west behaving west (hypocrisy) and Erdogan behaving Erdogan. It is completely on Turkish people to buy western propaganda or stand with their leader.
We have two ME examples of people buying western propaganda leading eventually to the destruction of lives and property of their own.
Long live Turkey 🇹🇷 love and respect from Pakistan 🇵🇰, ⚔️⚔️⚔️
China ki chaat na chood diya kya be 😂😂😂
🤘🏻🇹🇷🌹🇵🇰☝️
Turkey is on it's way to becoming a trash country like Pakistan lmao
Montag the_Magnificent first of all Islam isn’t horrible it’s a religion of peace that’s why I am not going to say any bad thing about Christianity 2nd Jesus is not a God but He peace be upon him was a prophet of God, its better to learn not just criticism
Turkey did'nt sabotage the builing icon like spain or India .
They neither decimated the single piece of the building nor they they stopped the foreigner to visit it .
Rather now they decided to open the mosque for all the tourist of the world free of cost then how can you say that this as agaist the ethics .
The interviewer seems very bias and start asking irrelevant questions. I think he is very personal and emotional.
Shut up. When it comes to ayasofia it is out of your league of understanding. Go to your black stone and kiss it for hope
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It is our proprity, in our land and we are free to make what ever we want when ever we like
@@audiovideo9526 lies. Converting UNESCO site to a moqsue is not a priority. There hundreds of empty mosque but I cannot wait for the al Aqsa to be removed in Jerusalem
You expect him to go along with the Turkish narrative? That's not his job, he's bringing up questions as an audience stand-in.
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UNESCO IS NOT TURKISH
AND EVEN A RELIGIUOS CONGRESS
WHY YOU WAN'T CONVERT SAN PIETRO OF ROME TO A MUSEUM, SHE'S OLDER, MORE BEAUTYFUL AND IS NOT IN A ISLAMIC LAND
AYA SOFIA IS A PROPRETY, AND PROPRETY MEANS YOU MAKE OF IT WHAT EVER YOU WANT WHEN EVER YOU WANT
if i was President Recep Tayyip Erdogan i would remove all the iconic mosaics completely from the Byzantium era,not plaster over it but scrape it off completely.The Hagia Sophia belongs to Turkey.
It was built as a Christian cathedral !!! Not a Mosque !!!
Edwin Subijano HOW BOBO IYAK KA NA LANG
Thousands of mosques in Spain Portugal France india Russia China were destroyed.
It is a place of worship not a museum.
@@siddiqmayet6325 you forgot how they were made at first place 😂😂 . . By turning older structures (temple, churches etc) into mosques .
You know Andalucía??
All praise be to God. Big challenges will come for big triumph to come✨ Let those people who disagree speak for themselves, while we seek protection from Him, the best Planner.
Ameen!
Why do the west just keep meddling on Asian affairs no matter how quaint.
Istanbul is in Europe.
@@ssiipp7848 why turkey is not accepted in the EU??
HYPOCRISY
@@ssiipp7848 You mean Constantinople
@@ybet1000 Yeah my bad.
@@ElabdSimo Constantinople is in Europe. Not the entirety of Turkey.
I really don't understand how it is hypocrisy....
OP said Asian affairs. Constantinople is not in Asia. I don't understand why you brought in the EU to the conversation.
What about agdam masjid of azerbijaan???
What Armenia done with that...
Stop playing victim cards
Robbery can't be defend by another robbery
@@vishalbhatti7906 I agree.
You want to know what happens when theifs come to power ?
Ans: he become president or prime minister or king in muslim nations
Like modi?
Mosques in Spain have been turned into churches,bars and night clubs( against the peace treaty)
The babe i mosque of india turned into temple of idols
They want to transform masjid aqsa in Jerusalem with all it’s sanctuaries as the capital
Of the Zionist!
We have not heard a western or eastern voice condemning these crimes
But reverting The Hague Sophia to mosque exposed the ha
Tired of the mentally eclipsed from the east and the west!!
The Alhambra palace mosque in granada was converted to the Santa Maria cathedral
Masjid qasim pasha has been Changed to Saint Michael cathedral
The jami masjid of qurtuba has been converted to a cathedral
Masjid ibn adees has been changed to the Salvador cathedral
Masjidul murabiteen has been has been converted to the Khan khausiyya church
Jami masjid of Seville has Been changed to the church of Mary
No one is mourning the diversity and rich Islamic history of mosques-turned-churches
In Spain that surveil and monitor Muslim tourists & stop them from praying inside
That erasure is “ acceptable”.
And don’t forget sultan mehmet bought it from his personal wealth from Christians and donated it to be a mosque it’s clearly stated in the title deeds on display in Hagia Sophia
Modi modi abki baar modi gawar
@@mrmr183 abki barr imran Khan lode ki sarkar jisse ye bhi nahi pta ki Germany and Japan are not neighbouring countries 😂😂😂😂
That’s what happens when India gets Modi, you have the guts to appear here after destroying Babari mosque
Shame on Turkey, in light of this blatant aggression It’s no wonder some European nations would want to forbid the building of new mosques on their sovereign land.
Do people forget that Pope John Paul II allowed for a mosque to be erected in Rome? This seems to have been a one sided generosity on our part.
Europe is mostly becoming Atheist.
in UK more than 50% of British citizens say they have no religion. Only 1% of young people identify as Church of England and Atheism is growing, survey finds. 52% of British citizens say they do not belong to any religion, compared with 31% in 1983 when the BSA (British Social Attitudes) survey began tracking religious belief. The number of people identifying as Christian has decreased from 66% to 38% in the same period.~
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Also Eastern Germany is perhaps the least religious region in the world. Atheism is embraced by young and old, though even more so by younger Germans. A recent study called Beliefs About God Across Time and Countries found that 52.1% of people asked whether they believed in God identified themselves as atheists. Indeed, the survey was unable to find a single person under the age of 28 in eastern Germany who believed in God.~
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Same trend is happening outside of Europe in other Western countries like USA, Canada, & Austrailia~
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It's silly to believe M0hammed riding flying d0nkey, splitting moon in half then putting it back together, talking ants, human boy magically replaced by a lamb (Abraham son Ismail), evil talking snake telling Adam and Eve to eat forbidden apple, Noah's ark (gathering 2 of every animal species on Earth then putting them on a ship thousands of years ago. Estimates of how many non-marine species exist range anywhere from 5 million to 130 million! how they were fed during is another issue), jinns, Jesus magically turning water into wine, walking on water, curing lepers simply by t0uching them, Moses parting the sea, 72 virgins, ect.~
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Please grow up and stop believing in silly superstitions like religion. All religions, Gods, ect were created by humans. And all of them are false. There is no God and there is no afterlife. All rich devel0ped western countries are becoming Atheist. Research 'Nihilism' , 'Efilism' and 'Anti Natalism'. Life is ultimately pointless suffering (especially for the poor) and it would be better to have never been born. Not just for humans, but also for every other sentient living being that ever had the misfortune of being born
Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world brother. Double check those stats
@Rafiqul
Islam growing mainly due to high birth rates. Most western Christian countries are becoming Atheist not Muslim
@@JD-kp6pt The white reverts I met in hajj would say otherwise but sure bro
Do you believe in jinnat or not???
Its mentioned in Quran 1400 years ago and if you want proof let me know. Islam is ture religion thats why people are converting to Islam every day.
@Mohammed Ihsan
The number of people who convert to Islam is offset by the number of people who leave it. About a quarter of adults who were raised Mu$lim (23%) no longer identify as members of the faith, roughly on par with the share of Americans who were raised Christian and no longer identify with Christianity (22%), according to a new analysis of the 2014 Religious Landscape Study.
Again a misleading by Al JAHILIAH.
You must belongs to the group who committed treason against Khilafa. Right?.
We Muslim Indonesia Always Support All That Erdogan Act is The Best For Islam,,,
I Always like Erdogan better than ur President
Arsyaad erdogan is a puppet. Don’t be fooled.
Shameless act of extremism.
Al Jazeera has taken the trouble to interview Turkish people regarding this issue. How ironic when the same could not be said on the refugee issues in Malaysia recently! (Lockdown in Malaysia). Your journalists should act professionally on whatever issues being discussed. Let us be reminded that Hagia Sophia BELONGS to Turkey, and you have absolutely NO right to question the decisions made by the Turkish President AND its people! And please, please do not imply and make controversial statements that the Turkish actions are being "condemned" by Christians around the globe or the President is seeking popularity. Shame on you Al Jazeera!
but turkey wasnt the country who made the Hagia Sophia.Tukey is going away from atta turk's view
Another Mosque in Instanbul , how many Mosques do you need there ??....every time you say Agia Sofia...you say " St.Sophia "..this is the true translation..you are calling it by its Christian name !! So you are referring to a Christian saint !!
Why do you call Constantinople , Instanbul? In the holy Koran it is only referred to as Constatinople.!! The holy Koran is the word of God, so you are being blasphemous by calling anything but Constantinople!!
İstanbul also have greek meaning as far as I know which is "to the city" However this actually comes from huge walls of the city and huge territory of this city
Back then this big city was surrounded with walls and when you past walls and entered inside there was city center obviously So people used "I am going to İstanbul" term which meant "I am going into city or city center" and eventually with time local folk(including every ethnicities) started to use "İstanbul" as city term instead of Konstantinopole
Return to the real owner as a symbol of peace!
islam doesnt believe in such things. its a political cult wanting to capture everything thing that belongs to some other religion.
beware europeans, islam is near you and inside your countries. 😂
Say erdogan...not Islam. As a Muslim I do not agree with his stance. It was a church for 1000 years. Return it
@@AK-xv4sv it doesnt matter what you think. its what the most of your community thinks.
in present day, all the conflicts across the globe.. one side is islam always and sometimes both the sides.
Maurya my community does not speak for me. Erdogan and nationalism will be the end of turkey
@@AK-xv4sv first "not islam", then shift to "not me" according to convenience. anyways goodluck.
I wish this host wouldn't ask these questions in such a negative tone
So true..
Mosques in Spain have been turned into churches,bars and night clubs( against the peace treaty)
The babe i mosque of india turned into temple of idols
They want to transform masjid aqsa in Jerusalem with all it’s sanctuaries as the capital
Of the Zionist!
We have not heard a western or eastern voice condemning these crimes
But reverting The Hague Sophia to mosque exposed the ha
Tired of the mentally eclipsed from the east and the west!!
The Alhambra palace mosque in granada was converted to the Santa Maria cathedral
Masjid qasim pasha has been Changed to Saint Michael cathedral
The jami masjid of qurtuba has been converted to a cathedral
Masjid ibn adees has been changed to the Salvador cathedral
Masjidul murabiteen has been has been converted to the Khan khausiyya church
Jami masjid of Seville has Been changed to the church of Mary
No one is mourning the diversity and rich Islamic history of mosques-turned-churches
In Spain that surveil and monitor Muslim tourists & stop them from praying inside
That erasure is “ acceptable”.
And don’t forget sultan mehmet bought it from his personal wealth from Christians and donated it to be a mosque it’s clearly stated in the title deeds on display in Hagia Sophia
@@ProfessorGlasgow all what you say is word of mouth... It was a symbol of religious tug of war.. in 1930 it was made symbol for humanity.. now it's just a mosque .. and yes .. humanity is bigger than any religion.. I see secularism dying in turkey.
@@ProfessorGlasgow Two wrongs don't make a right. I oppose the conversion of Babri masjid in India to a Hindu temple, and I oppose the conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque.
Constantinople, the capital of Ellas
PAOKmadness1926
Bla bla bla
@@audiovideo9526 ULELEL MONGOL. SON OF MUTAH
PAOKmadness1926
Bla bla bla
And about mutah or however you prefer to call it, i remember that your morther didn't disagree, oh god his happinnes was priceless
it served as a mosque for 500 years... but it served as a cathedral for more than 1000 years...
See the point is . . They don't care about what it was for how many years . All they want is mosque .
We are turning churches in to masjid all over USA every month so I don’t see what is all the fuss about.
Houston Rockets I have no complaints
Do you mean BUY it? In Italy lots of Churches sold as HOTEL. It is DIFFERENT cases! Hagia Sophia cured and cared by UNESCO. It is part of HISTORY. But if you are okay with it, If Israel convert Al Aqsa to SYNAGOGUE, i wish no TURKS go to street and set a war. Time to COMMIT to your own political values is IMPORTANT in this era. RIGHT, Turks?
Flav C To a Muslim it don’t matter what church we just make sure it continues to be a place of worship 🛐. And always with respect.
It's a matter of national sovereignty.
@Crow29Darkness Jerusalem is not capital of israel, only the west recognise Israel.
Other countries recognise Palestine.
So your comparison don't make sense.
Oh it’s about national sovereignty I wonder how Christian Turkish citizens feel. Oh that’s right they live in silence out of fear.
Religion of Peace creating peace again . Sahih Muslim 1 33 The Messenger of Allah said "I have been commanded to fight against people till they testify that there is no god but Allah, that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah, and they establish prayer and pay zakat.
Very good dicision turk we from india🇮🇳 supportes you , change all structure to previous status..keep it up.
You do realise that the Hagia Sofia was originally a Christian church.Your comment shows you are uninformed. Hagia Sophia was converted to a mosque by the conquering ottomans.
@@IAT1964 Dear I know all of these bro I think you are a Christian.....
One point clear that I am not support this changing place of worship....
This comment was a tunt or mocking to so called secular Turk who criticized India for converting 500 year old mosque to temple.......where the mosque was built by destroying temple.....
I think you understand my point clearly and what I want to say.....
@@IAT1964 I know it was a church for 1000 year by Byzantine empire of grees and converted to mosque by ottoman in 12 or 13th century......😊
the ottoman empire didn't die ..we were just between commercials
Mr. Ibrahim Kalın and Mehmet Celik, That would not be better answers you have given. Thank you two!
Considering its long and great history of byzantine christians, Hagia Sophia should remain a church with limited tourism implied.
Kalin is a great spokesman. I like him a lot. Thx to strenghten turkish roots.
Hagia sophia was built by Christians so why not give it back to Christians?? If not for ottoman Turks would it not still be in Christian hands?? We're Christians are allowed to pray in hagia sophia which was built by Christians???.... This guy don't know history...
Bring back our mosque in Spain then
ok then bring back our mosque in all over Spain not one
mosque but all
I guess you don't know the history bcz ottoman sultan bought it from christian when he took over the land...there is a proper documentation preserved.....christian cannot claim that hagia sofiya belongs to them ..........
when sultan converted it to mosque he preserved it, he didn't destroy the interior, portaits
@@ayashafiroz2346 another created false story... Same like how u copied from Bible and mde quran... A false teaching book
@@ayashafiroz2346 sultan did not destroy it... Coz theres lots of gold
Is there any relation between Israeli west bank annexation and Hagia sophia reopening...???
Ah ur very observant
RORIK Bluetooth
The turks who are already there are enough to do what they like to do, u have lost the possibility to reverse it, but before to convert al aqsa why u don't rebuy the anatolian mole of torino as u have always do, buying history with sleal money
Long life turkey long life erdogan 600 procent support of Portugal 🇵🇹. I am as a Portugese come soon to pray in the aya Sophia mosque. It’s your right your country. Ataturk umparaliasm are over!! 🇹🇷 🇵🇹
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This is a very big mistake. The End.
End of Turkey Saint Paisios said it and his feast day was on July 12th how interesting the time of Orthodoxy is nearly here God Bless you hope you service. 👍
We will see kid. 🇹🇷 🇵🇰 💪🏻
@@HomeUA-cam921 we'll see bout that too 🇬🇷🇻🇦🇷🇺✝️☦
LEGACY GAMING 🇮🇱
@@HomeUA-cam921 please do not put my flag next to Pakistan flag. İ take it as a big insult.
Our values are so different, how women being tortured, how Christian, hindu minorities being tortured are a big shame.
So do not put my flag next to Pakistan. We have nothing in cammon
It was ok for Spain,Greece and the Balkans to destroy Muslim heritage site but atleast in Turkey which has no history of destroying any Christian heritage site are now been questioned? Really? The double standard is another level. Shm
Shame on you AL jazeera
Hagia Sophia was SOLD by the Christians themselves when Mehmet II took Constantinople. Even though Sultan didn’t need to pay for it, he had the city, anything inside the city rightfully belonged to him. But he still bought Hagia Sophia so the monument rightly belonged to the Turks. Now what the Turks do with their OWN buildings is THEIR business.
It’s about message of peace and secularity. And more importantly, respect to Ataturk!
Who told you this nonsense? SOLD??? You're just an uneducated sheep. I hope Israel does the same with Al-Aksa.
It was never sold, just stolen.
Gol Kas The West have been colonising an destroying countries for centuries and now you are crying about them changing things within their own country? Grab some tissues lol 😂. When you don’t so what the West says you are a dictator the West is the biggest dictator. What right do they have? Are they international police?
Mo Bashe Not just the west, every civilisation that has ever existed has invaded and colonised other places.
You cannot expect it to be the way as it was when it was still Museum sir, never and also, why compare it to the cathedral of Paris. Which is a museum at the same time a place of worship. Here's the thing., It has always been a Christian church. Period.
Maybe soon the cathedral of Paris becomes a mosque the same way Agia Sophia did. They will be cleaning the blood for months
George Papazekos
Don't provocate turks, they can transform the acropolis to a mosque, so let's christianity survives for another century
George Papazekos
And about jews, if i'm not wrong jesus christ was was an arab jew from palestine, or was a romanian guy?!!!
Foolish decision and face the consequences also
He just destroyed the anchor
Why should Turkey consult with anyone for their internal discussion? Its their internal issue. Mosques in Spain's Muslim ruled region were converted into churches.. the pope wasn't pained by those decisions.
Alhamdulilah 👆 when the sleeping muslim giant finally wakes, the world will have to adjust to a new reality
Nice Greek name you got...Thanos!
The spokesman is very convincing. If anybody is allowed to visit the monument and there is no destruction of any part of it, I can't understand the hue and cry about it.
Peace and Love, Tolerance and Respect, Kindness and Humility should be the only mission of all religions. Most likely it is, but Most of the religious and political establishments and leaders are using religion for their own benefits; power, fame, money. It is said but it is true for all RELIGIONS.
Except for islam though. Read the history and you will see there is no tolerance in islam
Padme Teratai lol ok ignore the crusades then
@@turinturambar9846 Islam jihad were the main reason why it existed so...
Well said. No one is complaining about the cordoba cathedral or seville cathedral where Columbus is buried although they were originally mosques. Where was the international community when the Babri Mosque in India was demolished? Where is the international community when the status and sovereignty of masjid al-aqsa is threatened every day? The Muslim world stands with Turkey. May our ummah return back to a position of honor.
Ehh... The Seville Cathedral was not a Mosque. It was built as a replacement to the Mosque that had been Christianized.
The Cordoba Cathedral was originally a smaller church.
And it was 800 years ago. That is why not many are talking about it.