"The Hagia Sophia was intended to be a church, not a mosque. It was built as an Eastern Orthodox basilica by the Emperor Justinian I in 537. Over the centuries, it was converted into a Roman Catholic cathedral, an Eastern Orthodox cathedral again, and then a mosque in 1453, when the Ottomans conquered Istanbul. Each conversion damaged or destroyed invaluable features of the site. Finally, in 1934, it was declared a museum by Turkey's secularist modern founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Many of the stunning Christian mosaics that had been plastered over in the 1400s were uncovered, and the Muslim prayer niches were preserved so that the site could stand as a testament to peace instead of conflict. It became a World Heritage site in 1985..."
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PRAYING 4 MY BELOVED CRC (CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH) c9,
