Dear Kunle @Soulmedika ,
I like how you have emotionally blackmailed everyone here. As you know, I do not thrive in emotions. I thrive on facts. And as someone who has lived in Istanbul for more than a year, I know this history and geography intimately, and this is why I have this message for you.
Let me start with your complete misuse of the Book of Galatians. You quoted that Paul expressed fear for the Galatians and then you tried to twist it into some grand prophecy about Islam taking over Christian buildings. This is pure biblical illiteracy.
The letter you are talking about was written by Paul around the year 50 AD, which is nearly six hundred years before Islam even existed. If you actually read Galatians chapter four in context, Paul was rebuking the early Christians for returning to pagan idol worship and falling for Judaizers who wanted them to follow strict Jewish laws like circumcision. Paul was absolutely not worried about Muslims.
Just so you know, Galatia was a region in central Anatolia near modern day Ankara. The Hagia Sophia is in Istanbul, and it was built by Emperor Justinian half a millennium after Paul died. So connecting Paul's letter to a building that did not even exist in a completely different region shows you don’t even know what you are saying.
Then your dramatic question where you asked who would have thought there were ancient Christians in Turkey is genuinely embarrassing. Literally anyone who has opened a basic history book knows that Asia Minor was the absolute heartland of early Christianity. It was the center of the Byzantine Empire, the location of the Seven Churches of Revelation, and the exact site of the major early Christian councils like Nicaea and Chalcedon.
This is not even some hidden historical secret that you just cleverly uncovered to expose an Islamic agenda. It is universally known history that the land we now call Turkey is rich in Christian heritage.
This brings me to your claim about the Hagia Sophia and your narrative about an Islamic expansionist mindset. Yes, Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror converted the Hagia Sophia into a mosque when he conquered Constantinople in 1453.
However, trying to frame this as a uniquely Islamic evil ignores the entire reality of the medieval world. Taking over the central religious monuments of a conquered empire was the standard global rule of conquest for everyone.
Let me ask you this: When the Catholic Spanish conquered Al Andalus, what did they do? Did you know that they immediately turned the magnificent Great Mosque of Cordoba into a cathedral?. This is what they did. Also, when the Christian Crusaders conquered Jerusalem, they turned the Dome of the Rock into a church and Al Aqsa into a palace. You can see that you aren’t well versed in the subject matter you are dabbling into.
Even worse for your flawed argument, did you also know the people who actually sacked, looted, and defiled the Hagia Sophia first were Western Catholic Crusaders in the year 1204, long before the Ottomans ever arrived?
All I see is someone who doesn’t understand history, yet he is projecting modern political outrage onto standard medieval history just to push a hateful narrative. That won’t work.
Thank you for your attention. I hope you learned something new.
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