A Palestinian from the city of Jerusalem named his newly born daughter, "Hagia Sophia", after the mosque, which was returned to Turkey as a place of worship, after turning it into a museum.
"We congratulate the Islamic nation, Turkey, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for opening the Hagia Sophia mosque," said Hassan Bayyoud, a resident of Kafr Aqab district in the north of East Jerusalem.
He added to Anadolu Agency in his house in occupied Jerusalem, "Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds, blessed me with my eldest daughter. I named her Hagia Sophia after the name of the mosque, Hagia Sophia.
Bayoud continued, "The opening of the Hagia Sophia again, is a gospel towards the return of freedom to the Al-Aqsa Mosque of our free Palestine, and all Muslims around the world."
The child, "Hagia Sophia" was born on the 11th of this July, and the move won wide acclaim through social networks in Palestine.
The Turkish Supreme Administrative Court overturned the cabinet decision of November 24, 1934, to transfer the Hagia Sophia from a mosque to a museum.
On Sunday, Turkish religious affairs chief Ali Arbash announced during his visit to the Hagia Sophia that the five daily prayers will be held in the mosque regularly, starting on Friday, July 24.