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Hagia Sophia – set to become a mosque again

Posted on July 10, 2020 by Tony McMahon

Hagia Sophia mosque

The Hagia Sophia is to be turned back into a mosque having been a museum for eighty years after a court decision now enforced by President Erdogan

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Category: Templar News Tags: Ataturk, basilica, christian, church, constantine, constantinople, Constantius, court, decision, demonstration, Erdogan, Hagia, Hagia Sophia, Islam, Islamist, istanbul, Justinian, mosque, muslim, party, protest, roman, sacred, social media, Sofia, Theodosius, tourist, turkey, welfare, workship

The Madaba map of Byzantine Jerusalem

Posted on July 15, 2013 by Tony McMahon

The 6th century AD Madaba Map gives an exclusive view of Byzantine Jerusalem in thousands of tiles that make up an amazing mosaic

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Category: Templar History Tags: byzantine, christianity, church, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, constantinople, empire, Holy Sepulchre, jerusalem, Justinian, knights templar, Madaba, map, Nea, roman, Roman Empire, rome, Theotokos