Religion in Turkey
土耳其的宗教
ON JULY 5th the mufti of Trabzon gathered with other citizens for the first Friday prayers ofthe holy fasting month of Ramadan, not at a mosque but at an ancient Byzantine church. Thegathering was a symbolic re-enactment of the conquest in 1462 of this ancient Greek BlackSea port by Mehmet II, the Ottoman sultan who had wrested Constantinople from theByzantines in 1453. He marked his victory by converting the Haghia Sophia cathedral oftodays Istanbul into a mosque.
7月5日特拉布宗的穆夫提和其他居民一道参加斋月的一个星期五礼拜,他们聚会的地方不是清真寺而是一座古老的拜占庭教堂。这次集会象征性地重演了1462年奥斯曼苏丹穆罕默德二世攻占这个古老的希腊黑海港口。穆罕默德二世于1453年夺取了拜占庭的君士坦丁堡。为了纪念胜利,他把今天伊斯坦布尔的圣索菲亚大教堂变成一座清真寺。
Haghia Sophias sister of the same name in Trabzon is less grand. Yet with its dazzlingfrescoes and magnificent setting overlooking the sea, the 13th-century building is regardedas one of the finest examples of Byzantine architecture. As with other Christian monuments,the Haghia Sophia in Trabzon has become a symbol in the battle between secularists andIslamists. It was converted into a mosque around the 16th century and, after otherincarnations, became a museum in 1964. But the Islamists won the last round in 2012 when alocal court accepted the claim by the General Directorate of the Pious Foundations, thegovernment body responsible for Turkeys historic mosques, that the Haghia Sophia belongedto the foundation of Mehmet II and was being illegally occupied by the culture ministry.
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