Announcement of Taraweeh prayers in Ramadan after 88 years in Hagia Sofia

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ANKARA (Web Desk) - The Turkish government has announced that Taraweeh prayers will be offered for the first time in 88 years in the month of Ramadan at the historic Aya Sofia mosque in Istanbul.  Ali Arabs Dayant, who is in charge of overseeing Turkish religious services, said in a statement: "Thankfully, for the first time in 88 years, we will welcome the believers in the mosque for Taraweeh prayers this Ramadan. I will lead the first Taraweeh prayers."  I will feel this beautiful moment.  He said that in case of commencement of Ramadan on Friday, Saturday or Sunday, the first Taraweeh prayer will be offered in Aya Sofia.  The historic building, formerly used as a museum, was converted back into a mosque by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in 2020, but Taraweeh prayers have not been offered for the past two years due to an outbreak of the corona virus.  It should be noted that the Sofia building was first built as a Christian church during the reign of Roman Emperor Justinian I between 532 and 537 and is considered to be the most important architectural structure of the Byzantine Empire.  Used as a Christian church.  In 1453, when the Ottoman Sultan Muhammad the Conqueror conquered the city of Constantinople (now Istanbul), he converted Sofia into a mosque. According to some traditions, he bought the building from the Orthodox Church and then converted it into a mosque.  What was  The founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Pasha Atatرکrk, converted Sofia into a museum in 1934 after the fall of the Ottoman Caliphate, but a Turkish court annulled its museum status in June 2020.  After that, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that it would be converted into a mosque again and on July 24, 2020, for the first time in 86 years, Friday prayers were offered there.  Earlier, in 1985, UNESCO declared the Aya Sofia building a World Heritage Site and added it to the list of World Heritage Sites.

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