Erdogan allows Islamic Prayers in Agia Sophia

[George95]

Quran verses to be recited at Hagia Sophia on Friday, Erdogan says | Kathimerini

 

[prodromos]

I wonder what he hopes to achieve by this?

 

[Not David]

I wonder what he hopes to achieve by this?

Probably getting the votes of the Islamic citizens.

 

[Ignatius the Kiwi]

Erdogan's Islamic faith is no secret, from what I can tell and have heard about him. He's taking Turkey in a direction away from western secularization and towards a more Islamic way of doing things.

The only criticism I have is not that this is unfair to Christians who aren't allowed to pray there, but rather that they are allowing the wrong sort of prayers there to begin with. I would rather see the Divine Liturgy there than the Islamic call to prayer.

Not that there is much hope for that.

 

[icxn]

... I would rather see the Divine Liturgy there than the Islamic call to prayer.

You are not the only one.

Not that there is much hope for that.

Now why would you say that? Of course there's hope!

 

[dqhall]

Quran verses to be recited at Hagia Sophia on Friday, Erdogan says | Kathimerini

Erdogan's Islamic faith is no secret, from what I can tell and have heard about him. He's taking Turkey in a direction away from western secularization and towards a more Islamic way of doing things.

The only criticism I have is not that this is unfair to Christians who aren't allowed to pray there, but rather that they are allowing the wrong sort of prayers there to begin with. I would rather see the Divine Liturgy there than the Islamic call to prayer.

Not that there is much hope for that.

In 1915-16 the Muslim Turks massacred 1.5 million Armenian Christians who lived among them. Mosques participated in the organized killings during the Armenian Genocide. Turkey is predominately Muslim.

 

[Not David]

You are not the only one.

Now why would you say that? Of course there's hope!

What hope?

 

[Ignatius the Kiwi]

You are not the only one.

Now why would you say that? Of course there's hope!

Unless Constantinople is in Christian hands there seems to be little hope for it.

 

[icxn]

What hope?

Unless Constantinople is in Christian hands there seems to be little hope for it.

That's the hope I had in mind... and certain prophecies of Saint Paisios.