{"id":399341,"date":"2020-07-11T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T07:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=399341"},"modified":"2020-07-11T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T07:12:00","slug":"turkey-confirms-hagia-sophia-to-open-for-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/turkey-confirms-hagia-sophia-to-open-for-worship\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey confirms Hagia Sophia to open for worship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISTANBUL<\/strong> (SONNA)- After completing all preparations, Turkey will open Hagia Sophia for worship on July 24 at Friday prayer, the Turkish president said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In an address to the nation, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivered his remarks on the new status of Hagia Sophia \u2014 which was used as a museum for the past decades but will serve as a mosque following a recently adopted decree on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Since it was built in the sixth century, changing hands from empire to empire,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/10\/world\/europe\/hagia-sophia-erdogan.html\">Hagia Sophia<\/a>\u00a0has been a Byzantine cathedral, a mosque under the Ottomans and finally a museum, making it one of the world\u2019s most potent symbols of Christian-Muslim rivalry and of Turkey\u2019s more recent devotion to secularism<\/p>\n<p>The president said\u00a0Hagia Sophia\u2019s doors will be open for Turks, foreigners, Muslims, and non-Muslims as is the case with all other mosques.<\/p>\n<p>The World Heritage site was once a potent symbol of Christian-Muslim rivalry, and it could become one once more.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:AA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL (SONNA)- After completing all preparations, Turkey will open Hagia Sophia for worship on July 24 at Friday prayer, the Turkish president said on Friday. In an address to the nation, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivered his remarks on the new status of Hagia Sophia \u2014 which was used as a museum for the past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-399341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399343,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399341\/revisions\/399343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}