We are in Turkey on an educational tour, looking at the shared Islamic, Christian, and Jewish heritages here.
While we were in Istanbul, that magnificent historical capital for so many centuries, the place that an Ottoman poet called “Peerless, save perhaps for Paradise”, the site simply called “The Abode of Felicity” and as it were the Threshold between heaven and Earth, there was a rally on behalf of Muslims who would like to see the Haghia Sophia restored to a mosque.
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