{"id":46230,"date":"2011-11-01T06:31:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T04:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=46230"},"modified":"2014-01-06T16:42:35","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T14:42:35","slug":"hagia-sophia-in-istanbul-may-become-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/11\/01\/hagia-sophia-in-istanbul-may-become-mosque\/","title":{"rendered":"Hagia Sophia in Istanbul may become mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Azerbaijan, Baku, Oct.31 \/ Trend A. Tagiyeva \/<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-46232\" title=\"Sobor_Aya_Sofia\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Sobor_Aya_Sofia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"151\" \/>Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, which was earlier a Patriarchal Orthodox Cathedral and later a mosque, and now a museum, may once again become an active mosque, the Sabah newspaper reports.<\/p>\n<p>Repairs are underway. A mimbar &#8211; a platform for the imam &#8212; is planned to be built in the museum.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said during a visit to the museum that fundamental changes should be made in Hagia Sophia.<\/p>\n<p>Hagia Sophia was built in Constantinople, now Istanbul, in 537. After Mehmet II conquered the city in 1453, the church turned into a mosque.<\/p>\n<p>via Hagia Sophia in Istanbul may become mosque &#8211; Trend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Azerbaijan, Baku, Oct.31 \/ Trend A. Tagiyeva \/ Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, which was earlier a Patriarchal Orthodox Cathedral and later a mosque, and now a museum, may once again become an active mosque, the Sabah newspaper reports. Repairs are underway. A mimbar &#8211; a platform for the imam &#8212; is planned to be built [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":46232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094],"tags":[4360],"class_list":["post-46230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism","tag-hagia-sophia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}