Performing Friday prayers in Ayasofya-i Kebir Mosque-i Sheriff was met with reaction in Greece. During the hours of Friday prayer, mourning bells rang in all churches, special rites were held and the flags were cut in half.
In the churches in Thessaloniki and Patras, in the special rituals accompanied by the Byzantine and Greek flags, the Virgin Mary was prayed for the “rescue” of the Hagia Sophia Mosque.
In the special ceremony, which will be held in the Athens Metropolitan Church in the evening in the capital city of Athens, the chants of gratitude about Istanbul, dedicated to the Virgin Mary from the Byzantine era, will be read by Greek Archbishop Ieronimos.
With the call of San Sinot, night rites will also be held in churches in many parts of the country.
“Erdogan did what he said” Greek television channels commented on the live connections they made from Hagia Sophia, “Black days for Christians”, “Erdogan did what he said”.
Television channels also broadcast President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s reading of the Quran before the prayer inside the mosque.
Turkey’s mosques as places of worship open to Greece’s President Katerina Sakelaropul from countries that first reaction to be converted to savunulmuştuayasofya the mosque would not dare, “Turkey’s Hagia Sophia to provoke the historical memory of the direct Greek mosque conversion decisions”, arguing that the Pope Franciscus of He called on his international weight in the Hagia Sophia debate.
The Greek government described the decision as “a provocation to the civilized world”.
Greek Minister of Culture Lina Mendoni claimed that “President Erdogan was nationalist and led his country back 6 centuries”.
Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias also considered Hagia Sophia’s decision to be converted back into a mosque as “a challenge against UNESCO”.
Greek church leader, Archbishop of Athens İeronimos if it was just a game of developments in Turkey’s Hagia Sophia, and to open for worship as a mosque had claimed would dare.
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