{"id":399771,"date":"2020-07-27T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T07:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=399771"},"modified":"2020-07-28T10:04:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T07:04:59","slug":"somalia-congratulates-turkey-on-reverting-hagia-sophia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/somalia-congratulates-turkey-on-reverting-hagia-sophia\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia congratulates Turkey on reverting Hagia Sophia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu<strong>(SONNA)<\/strong>:Somalia congratulated Turkey on Saturday on the reopening Hagia Sophia as a mosque after 86 years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Somalia Ministry of Endowments &amp; Religious Affairs congratulates the whole Muslim world, and specifically the Turkish public, our brothers; for taking the decision to revert Hagia Sophia to its origins as a mosque,\u201d it said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The reopening of Hagia Sophia was celebrated with various events in the capital of Mogadishu.<\/p>\n<p>Hagia Sophia served as a church for 916 years until the conquest of Istanbul, and a mosque from 1453 to 1934 &#8212; nearly 500 years &#8212; and most recently as a museum for 86 years.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most visited historic buildings in Turkey by domestic and international tourists, Hagia Sophia was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1985, during its time as a museum.<\/p>\n<p>A Turkish court annulled a 1934 Cabinet decree July 10 that had turned Hagia Sophia into a museum, paving the way for its use again as a mosque after an 86-year hiatus.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>AA<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu(SONNA):Somalia congratulated Turkey on Saturday on the reopening Hagia Sophia as a mosque after 86 years. &#8220;Somalia Ministry of Endowments &amp; Religious Affairs congratulates the whole Muslim world, and specifically the Turkish public, our brothers; for taking the decision to revert Hagia Sophia to its origins as a mosque,\u201d it said on Twitter. The reopening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-399771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local","8":"category-news","9":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399771","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=399771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399772,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399771\/revisions\/399772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}