{"id":47503,"date":"2015-11-05T02:07:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T02:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=47503"},"modified":"2015-11-05T02:07:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T02:07:46","slug":"when-does-a-mosque-stop-being-a-church-or-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=47503","title":{"rendered":"When does a mosque stop being a church &#8211; or museum?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; Hagia Sophia and the Mezquita, Cordoba, with a glance at Guadalupe \/ Tepeyac ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/mezquita-hagia-sophia-int.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/mezquita-hagia-sophia-int.png\" alt=\"mezquita &amp; hagia sophia int\" width=\"602\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/mezquita-hagia-sophia-int.png 602w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/mezquita-hagia-sophia-int-300x135.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interiors of the Mezquita, Cordoba [left], and Hagia Sophia, Istanbul [right]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Opening paras of my latest from <strong>LapidoMedia<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>HERITAGE watchers are waiting to see whether Turkey\u2019s Culture and Tourism Minister, Yalcin Topcu, who has called for the reopening of basilica-turned-mosque-turned-museum Hagia Sophia as a mosque, has retained his job.<\/p>\n<p>Topcu, an independent, was given the interim post in the negotiations that followed the AKP\u2019s failure to achieve an absolute majority in an earlier round of elections in June.<\/p>\n<p>Tayyip Erdogan\u2019s AKP or Justice and Development Party won a landslide victory in last Sunday\u2019s elections, but as we went to press, posts still remained to be re-allocated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can &#8212; should, eh? &#8212; read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lapidomedia.com\/analysis-church-mosque-turkey\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/mezquita-hagia-sophia-ext.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/mezquita-hagia-sophia-ext.png\" alt=\"mezquita &amp; hagia sophia ext\" width=\"602\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/mezquita-hagia-sophia-ext.png 602w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/mezquita-hagia-sophia-ext-300x125.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Exteriors of the Mezquita-Cathedral, Cordoba [left] and of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul [right]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; Hagia Sophia and the Mezquita, Cordoba, with a glance at Guadalupe \/ Tepeyac ] . Interiors of the Mezquita, Cordoba [left], and Hagia Sophia, Istanbul [right] ** Opening paras of my latest from LapidoMedia: HERITAGE watchers are waiting to see whether Turkey\u2019s Culture and Tourism Minister, Yalcin Topcu, who has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,497,1072,1207,429,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-christianity","category-lapido-media","category-spain","category-turkey","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47503"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47512,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47503\/revisions\/47512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}