A Muslim in Turkey went to Hagia Sophia to pray and found parchments behind broken pieces of a wall. Inside were documents with writing in Hebrew. This could be a great historic and cultural find.
This serves as a reminder of how Hagia Sophia continues to be desecrated. Hagia Sophia’s primary significance is spiritual and there are those of us who will not stop reminding the world that Hagia Sophia is a product of the Gospel and Greek Orthodox faith. It is also a great historical and cultural site.
The discovery of the parchment raises the question as to how much undiscovered history remains in Hagia Sophia. It will be interesting to see how old the parchments are and to what era they originated in. If nothing else, this discovery demonstrates that the status of Hagia Sophia should not have been changed.
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Turkey’s current economic and foreign policy disasters are just desserts for their intolerance and hatred directed at Christian minority groups. Their appalling desecration of Hagia Sophia was the last straw, there can be no redemption of Turkey without them being made to suffer greatly for their actions.
Hagia Sophia is a symbol of the Turkish Revolution. I believe it foreshadows Turkish aggression that is to come.