At 20:53 last Friday, the 10th, coinciding with the 600th anniversary of the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire (May 29, 1453, according to the Julian calendar), the Turkish president announced that the prayer for this coming Friday will be It will already take place in the main hall of the former Cathedral of Saint Sophia , in the capital of the former Byzantine empire. Istanbul today. Nothing new. The same day that Constantinople fell - "there was never and never will be a more terrible event", according to an annotation by an orthodox monk collected by Steven Runciman in The Fall of Constantinople (Kingdom of Round) -, Sultan Mehmed II turned it into a mosque , destr
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