Turkey's Council of State annuls a 1934 Cabinet decision that had changed the centuries-old Hagia Sophia into a museum.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday formally re-converted Istanbul’s 6th century Hagia Sophia into a mosque, hours after a high court annulled a 1934 decision that had turned the iconic structure into a museum.
Turkey’s highest administrative court had earlier issued a ruling that paves the way for the government to convert Istanbul’s iconic Hagia Sophia — a former cathedral-turned-mosque that now serves as a museum — back into a Muslim house of worship.
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