Church of St. Saviour
Pierrakakis raises Istanbul church conversion during Vatican visit
Education, Religious Affairs and Sports Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis has said he raised the conversion of a former Byzantine church in Istanbul, the Church of St. Saviour in Chora, into a mosque during his first official visit to the Vatican in Rome.
Conversion of another church into mosque in Istanbul ‘insults its character,’ Foreign Ministry says
The formal opening of a former Byzantine church in Istanbul as a mosque "insults its character as a UNESCO world cultural heritage monument belonging to humanity," the Foreign Ministry has said.
Turkey formally opens another former Byzantine-era church as a mosque
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan formally opened a former Byzantine church in Istanbul as a mosque on Monday, four years after his government had designated it a Muslim house of prayer, despite criticism from neighboring Greece.