Tag: Ali Erbas

Muslims, Christians, and Hagia Sophia

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Public Orthodoxy

July 31, 2020

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Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations, Religion and Politics

Ali Erbas, Archbishop Elpidophoros, Hagia Sophia, Phil Dorroll

by Phil Dorroll Around midday local time on July 24th, the first Muslim Friday prayer service in over eighty years was conducted in Hagia Sophia, its status recently changed from a museum to a mosque. A key part of weekly Muslim congregational worship is the preaching of a sermon. In this case, the sermon was […]
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