Has Turkey halted plans to turn Chora museum into a mosque?
Has Turkey halted plans to turn museum into a mosque? Images & Stories/Alamy Stock Photo Turkey’s abrupt decision at the end of last year to cancel Islamic prayers at the Chora museum—built as a cathedral a millennium ago before becoming a mosque, then a museum—has cast doubt on controversial plans to reconsecrate the monument. The government’s announcement in August that the Church of the Holy Saviour in Chora, called Kariye in Turkish, would lose its neutral status triggered an outcry from Unesco, foreign governments and scholars over the risk posed to 14th-centu...
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