“Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia sees First Quran Reading in 85 Years”

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The Hagia Sophia was turned into a museum accessible to all by the secular founders of modern Turkey in the 1930s. (Photo: Anadolu)

The Hagia Sophia was turned into a museum accessible to all by the secular founders of modern Turkey in the 1930s. (Photo: Anadolu)

A Muslim cleric has for the first time in 85 years recited the Quran in the Hagia Sophia, the world famous landmark of Istanbul which is now a museum after serving as a church and a mosque, reports said Saturday.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/life-style/art-and-culture/2015/04/11/Istanbul-s-Hagia-Sophia-sees-first-Quran-reading-in-85-years.html

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