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Hagia Sophia

The large dome of the UNESCO World Heritage site Hagia Sophia is shown from above at a distance.

Turkey’s president formally makes Haghia Sophia a mosque

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday formally reconverted Istanbul’s sixth-century iconic Haghia Sophia into a mosque and declared it open to Muslim worship, hours after a high court annulled a 1934 decision that had turned it into a museum.

Several people are shown standing and sitting in in a subway car that has the doors open and another man walking past.

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