Hagia Sophia Has Reverted to a Mosque, Erdogan Says

ISTANBUL—President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed Friday that the city’s sixth-century Hagia Sophia, which turned a symbol of secularism in modern-day Turkey when it was converted into a museum in the thirties, would reopen to Muslim prayer as a complete-fledged mosque later on this thirty day period, a shift opposed by the U.S. and other people.

The framework, with its large dome and towering minarets, has very long performed a pivotal purpose in the culture of the metropolis and in Turkey at large. It was crafted as Christian temple by the Byzantine empire, then turned a mosque…