Turkey's President Erdogan says the first Islamic prayers at Istanbul's Hagia Sophia would be performed on July 24 after a top court annulled its museum status
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the first Muslim prayers at Istanbul's famed Hagia Sophia would be performed on July 24 after a top court annulled its museum status on Friday.
The Council of State, Turkey's highest administrative court, on Friday unanimously revoked a 1934 cabinet decision making it a museum. After the Ottoman conquest in 1453, it was converted into a mosque before being turned into a museum during the rule of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, in the 1930s.
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