Muslims in Turkey demand right to pray at Hagia Sophia

ISTANBUL, TURKEY- Thousands of Muslim worshippers descended Saturday on Istanbul's world famous Hagia Sophia, the towering former Byzantine church that is now a museum, to demand the right to pray there, Turkish media reported. An imam led a prayer in front of the vast building that was once a Greek Orthodox basilica, then a mosque and now a museum before crowds called for it to be restored as a Muslim place of worship.

"Let the chains break, open Hagia Sophia," chanted the crowds wh...

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