THE ISLAMISATION OF ST SOPHIA’S CATHEDRAL IN CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE EXTINCTION OF THE BYZANTINE HERITAGE

John E Marks
6 min readJul 24, 2020
St Sophia’s cathedral

ISTANBUL (what an ugly word to replace mellifluous Constantinople with) — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the notorious Islamo-Fascist sultan of Turkey (a member state of NATO and American ally(sic)), said on Friday 10th of July 2020 that the city’s sixth-century Christian cathedral, Saint Sophia’s (building began…

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John E Marks

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