status berkenaan masjid ini diwar war pun sejak 2 minggu lepas dan kini diputuskan untuk mengembalikan fungsi asal museum Hagia sophia ini kepada masjid. Sesungguhnya masjid ini mempunyai kesan simbolik sejarah yg hebat pada dua agama, Kristian Ortodoks ( Eastern side - Greek ) and Islam.
Sebab itu apabila kita seorang Islam fahamilah sejarah dunia dan Islam dan Sejarah dunia.
Hagia Sophia ditukar status kepada masjid Agensi | Julai 10, 2020 23:00 +08 | Durasi: 51 saat
ISTANBUL: Kerajaan Turki dibenarkan untuk menukar status bangunan ikonik, Hagia Sophia yang ketika ini berfungsi sebagai muzium kepada masjid.
Ia selepas Mahkamah Tinggi Turki mengeluarkan keputusan tersebut selepas Majlis Negara mengemukakan petisyen yang dikeluarkan oleh sebuah kumpulan agama yang mahu membatalkan keputusan kabinet pada 1934 yang mengubah bangunan itu kepada muzium.
Keputusan tersebut sejajar dengan seruan Presidennya, Recep Taayyip Erdogan yang mahu tapak warisan dunia itu kepada sebuah masjid walaupun mendapat kecaman hebat dari Amerika Syarikat dan pemimpin Kristian Ortodoks.
Bagaimanapun, media antarabangsa melaporkan, keputusan tersebut mungkin mencetuskan ketegangan dengan negara jiran, Greece yang mahu bangunan itu dikekalkan sebagai sebuah muzium.
Sebelum ini, premis itu membenarkan semua penganut agama untuk bermeditasi dan menikmati keindahan seni bina bangunan berkenaan yang dibangunkan pada kurun keenam.
ini dari Al Jazeera ( uhuk uhuk sket )
World reacts to Turkey reconverting Hagia Sophia into a mosque
UNESCO, Greece, Cyprus and church leaders among others express concern about changing status of the sixth-century site.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared Istanbul's iconic Hagia Sophia open to Muslim worship on Friday after a top court ruled the building's conversion to a museum by modern Turkey's founding statesman was illegal.
Erdogan made his announcement, just an hour after the court ruling was revealed, despite international warnings not to change the status of the nearly 1,500-year-old monument, revered by Christians and Muslims alike.
"The decision was taken to hand over the management of the Ayasofya Mosque ... to the Religious Affairs Directorate and open it for worship," the decision signed by Erdogan said.
The UNESCO World Heritage Site in Istanbul, a magnet for tourists worldwide, was first constructed as a cathedral in the Christian Byzantine Empire but was converted into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2 ... 00710135637861.html
https://www.nst.com.my/world/wor ... -sophia-back-mosque
ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Friday that the Hagia Sophia, one of the architectural wonders of the world, would be reopened for Muslim worship as a mosque, sparking fury in the Christian community and neighbouring Greece.
His declaration came after a top Turkish court revoked the sixth-century Byzantine monument's status as a museum, clearing the way for it to be turned back into a mosque.
In an address to the nation, Erdogan said the first Muslim prayers at the Hagia Sophia would be performed on July 24.
"God willing, we will perform Friday prayers all together on July 24 and reopen Hagia Sophia to worshipping," he said, assuring that it would open its door to all, including non-Muslims.
Greece swiftly condemned the move by Muslim-majority Turkey as a provocation while the United States also expressed disappointment.
"Greece condemns most firmly" the decision, said Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, saying it "does not only impact relations between Greece and Turkey but also the latter's relations with the European Union, Unesco and the global community as a whole."
For Greek Culture Minister Lina Mendoni, "the nationalism displayed by Erdogan... takes his country back six centuries."
The Russian Orthodox Church was equally scathing.
"The concerns of millions of Christians were not heard," Church spokesman Vladimir Legoida told Interfax news agency.
The decision "shows that all pleas regarding the need to handle the situation extremely delicately were ignored," he said.
Unesco chief Audrey Azoulay said she "deeply regrets" the decision made without prior dialogue with the UN's cultural agency.
US State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus stated that "we are disappointed by the decision by the government of Turkey to change the status of the Hagia Sophia."
The move was also condemned by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom as an "unequivocal politicisation" of the monument.
Erdogan urged everyone to respect Turkey's decision and said the issue of what purposes Hagia Sophia would serve "concerns Turkey's sovereign rights."
Hagia Sophia, which stands opposite the impressive Sultanahmet Mosque – often called the Blue Mosque – has been a museum since 1935 and open to believers of all faiths.
Transforming it from a mosque was a key reform under the new republic born out of the ashes of the Ottoman Empire.
Shortly after the court decision, Erdogan signed a presidential decree handing over the administration of "Hagia Sophia Mosque" to Turkey's religious affairs directorate known as Diyanet.
Erdogan has in recent years placed great emphasis on the battles which resulted in the defeat of Byzantium by the Ottomans, with lavish celebrations held every year to mark the conquest.
Muslim clerics have occasionally recited prayers in the museum on key anniversaries or religious holidays. In 2018, Erdogan himself recited a verse from the Koran at Hagia Sophia.
"The decision is intended to score points with Erdogan's pious and nationalist constituents," said Anthony Skinner of the risk assessment firm Verisk Maplecroft.
"Hagia Sophia is arguably the most conspicuous symbol of Turkey's Ottoman past – one which Erdogan is lever
aging to strengthen his base while snubbing domestic and foreign rivals," he told AFP.
Amerika Syarikat "kecewa" status Hagia Sophia, gesa akses kepada semua
Agensi | Diterjemahkan oleh: Hasimi Muhamad
Diterbitkan pada Julai 11, 2020 13:04 +08 | Durasi: 45 saat
WASHINGTON: Amerika Syarikat (AS) meluahkan "kekecewaan" terhadap keputusan kerajaan Turki untuk menukar kembali status bangunan Hagia Sophia kepada masjid.
Kuasa besar dunia itu turut menggesa agar negara Islam itu memberi akses yang sama kepada semua pengunjung, lapor AFP.
Jurucakap Jabatan Negara AS, Morgan Ortagus berkata, pihaknya berharap untuk mendengar rancangan Turki bagi memastikan bangunan ikonik itu kekal diakses tanpa sebarang halangan.
Sebelum ini, Presiden Turki, Recep Tayyip Erdogan memaklumkan perkara itu selepas mahkamah tinggi negara itu memutuskan tindakan kerajaan terdahulu mengubah status Hagia Sophia menjadi muzium sebagai tidak sah.
BACA: Hagia Sophia: Presiden Turki minta semua hormati keputusan mahkamah
Hagia Sophia dibina empayar Rom Timur sebagai gereja besar pada abad keenam Masihi sebelum diubah menjadi masjid oleh kerajaan Uthmaniyah pada 1453.
Statusnya sekali lagi bertukar apabila kerajaan sekular Tukri menjadikan Hagia Sophia sebagai muzium pada 1934.
Persoalan saya , untuk syiar - kenapa tak buat dual functions - dwifungsi atau satu platform museum yg mempamerkan kekayaan warisan tamadun Islam dan Rome dan juga tempat ibadah?
hanya nak meraih laba sokongan politik utk menghadapi 4 medan peperangan yang dia sdri campak diri sdri.
kena ingat erdogan kalah pilihanraya istanbul.
Turkey’s top administrative court, the Council of State is likely to announce today the restoration of the Hagia Sophia from a museum to a mosque reversing an 86-year-old decree by the Council of Ministers under the presidency of the republic’s secularist founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
Once the largest and most important cathedral in the world, the UNESCO World Heritage Site was initially an Orthodox Christian church for almost a thousand years on the orders of Byzantine emperor Justinian in today’s Istanbul, former Constantinople, named after the emperor Constantine who commissioned the original structure. The fall of Constantinople to Islam was foretold by the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and successive Muslim armies had sought to fulfil this prophecy, starting with the Umayyad caliphate as early as the 7th century. As part of its turbulent history, the Hagia Sophia was even converted into a Roman Catholic cathedral for almost 60 years during the Crusader occupation in 1204 during the 4th Crusade.
However, the city’s capture would be overseen by Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II in 1453, the Hagia Sophia was converted into an imperial mosque in the empire’s new capital, where it functioned as such for some 500 years before the demise of the caliphate in 1924 in the aftermath of the First World War.
In line with Ataturk’s drive for secularisation in the nascent Turkish republic and as a goodwill gesture to the Orthodox Christian world, the church was made into a museum. However, although Turkey is technically a secular state, it is also an overwhelmingly Muslim-majority country, one that is also highly nationalistic too. It is therefore unsurprising that there have been campaigns for decades to restore the ancient building to a mosque. There are also Islamic jurisprudential rulings to consider on the permissibility in altering the status of a mosque, or masjid.
Previous petitions requesting the Hagia Sophia, known locally as Ayasofya, to be used for once again for prayers, as in 2016 have been rejected but it appears this time round, the courts will rule in favour of the move which is supported by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who last year described the conversion of the mosque to a museum as a “very big mistake”.
A Turkish official has already disclosed to Reuters that the court’s decision is expected to be an annulment, while an official of Erdogan’s ruling AKP party also reiterated this. According to Hürriyet columnist Abdulkadir Selvi, the court has already made the annulment ruling and is set to publish it today.
The association committed to the mosque’s restoration, backed by a team of lawyers, submitted the seasoned argument that the decision to turn the mosque into a museum was unlawful as the state lacked the authority to alter the status of the Hagia Sophia, being as it were administered by an Islamic trust known as a Waqf, much like the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, the now-destroyed Babri Mosque in Ayodhya (India) and the Cordoba Mosque in Spain, which is currently a museum.
Based on Islamic jurisprudence it is largely agreed upon that a mosque belongs to Allah and cannot be sold or closed down as a place of worship, at the very least it is disliked. Although it being a former church has its own ramifications. According to Studies in Early Islamic Tradition, the classical scholar Zarkashi ruled in favour of establishing a mosque on a place that was once a non-Muslim place of prayer. It is also worth noting that the Umayyyad Mosque in Damascus was purchased from the Christians at the time, however the Hagia Sophia turning into a mosque as a result of conquest may lead to a difference of opinion, one Greek-based Mufti maintains it is still a church and it would be provocative to change its status.
However, it is believed that with recent legal precedents, the decision will be different this time round. Last year the same court revoked the museum status of the Kariye, a former Byzantine church, enabling it to return to being a mosque. In fact over the past decade four sites have re-opened as such.
Quranic recitations on 29 May at Hagia Sophia to mark the anniversary of Mehmet’s victory over Istanbul was also a telling sign of things to come.
The impending move of course is not without its critics, not only among secularist Turks but understandably from Greece, which see itself as the cultural inheritor of the Byzantine Church, in addition to fellow Orthodox-majority Russia, who consider it a threat to Christianity and divisive. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has also weighed in on the debate by urging that the Hagia Sophia to remain accessible to all.
However, Erdogan amid growing pre-existing tensions with Greece, responded by saying: “Is it you managing Turkey or us?” emphasising Turkey’s sovereign right to decide on its own internal affairs. He did though, reassure concerns for religious minorities by stating that there are some 400 active churches and synagogues in the country. Concerns of accessibility are of no issue to the neighbouring Sultan Ahmet or “Blue Mosque”, which attracts tourists and Muslim worshippers alike. There is no reason why this cannot be replicated with the Hagia Sophia.
A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry also issued a statement following Pompeo’s remarks, “Hagia Sophia, situated on our land is the property of Turkey, like all our cultural assets,” it said. Any issue regarding Hagia Sophia is “our internal affair as part of Turkey’s sovereign rights”.
Of course the political motives behind the move are also quite evident when set against the backdrop of a potential currency crisis and the coronavirus pandemic, but significantly the loss of Istanbul by the AKP in the re-run of the mayoral elections last year. The potent symbolism of Erdogan being able to perform prayers in the Hagia Sophia, centuries after the great Ottoman conqueror Mehmet before him, timed with the upcoming fourth anniversary of the failed 15 July coup is also one that cannot be missed. The fact is, such a move taps into Erdogan’s religious, conservative and ultra-nationalist support-base.
Ultimately, the decision on the status of Hagia Sophia is Turkey’s as a sovereign nation, however its restoration to a mosque will upset many liberals and Orthodox Christians but it will also be welcomed not just by Erdogan’s supporters and many of Turkey’s Muslim population, but by those far beyond Turkey’s borders in the wider Islamic world.
However, it is believed that with recent legal precedents, the decision will be different this time round. Last year the same court revoked the museum status of the Kariye, a former Byzantine church, enabling it to return to being a mosque. In fact over the past decade four sites have re-opened as such.
Quranic recitations on 29 May at Hagia Sophia to mark the anniversary of Mehmet’s victory over Istanbul was also a telling sign of things to come.
The impending move of course is not without its critics, not only among secularist Turks but understandably from Greece, which see itself as the cultural inheritor of the Byzantine Church, in addition to fellow Orthodox-majority Russia...
maksudnya ada juga usaha dijalan sebleum ini pada masjid masjid yg Attarturk the secularist dah jadikan museum...
why now? pada I wallahuallam. Allah izinkan time ni dan, kalau asbabnya atas dasar politics ...beliau dari dulu pun tak disenangi oleh the liberal secularist.
yg lain sikit Erdogan berani la alter satu status monumen yg diisytiharkan tapak warisna unesco tu kepada fungsi asal dan apabila baca artikel kedua tu - okay je kalau org nak melawat lawat as museum
Post time 12-7-2020 10:36 AMFrom the mobile phone|Show all posts
Edited by Normabaru at 12-7-2020 10:41 AM
mbhcsf replied at 12-7-2020 10:13 AM
However, it is believed that with recent legal precedents, the decision will be different this tim ...
Fyi..
Kan situ i dah tulis terang2 better late than never..
The reason I raise that issue coz era kamal atartuk dh berakhir lama dah.. Bukan br setahun dua.. And they are loud in talking about islamic issue all around the world.. So thats why.. It is just like ponder upon kind of thing..
Another thing i bkn rabun @ xreti mmbaca ye.. So no need la buat posting siap bergaris nk highlight besar2 cm sindir gitu...tp hujung2 masih jwpn xsure juga
Ps:Now i baru paham kenapa org malas nk raikan posting tt.. Komen pon level2 kerek
Pss:No wonder bod agama xde sambutan dlm cari.. Dah mod pon pesen gini
Post time 12-7-2020 11:43 AMFrom the mobile phone|Show all posts
MashaAllah Laa haula wala quwata illa billah..
Erdogan nampak Allah and RasulNya dimana mahfum sebuah hadith bahawa di akhirzaman kelak rumah rumah Allah (masjid) didirikan DENGAN begitu indah (mengalahkan museum). Malangnya tiada amalan masjid nabawi dihidupkan.. Berapa shaf di setiap masjid pada waktu solat hari ini? Ke masih nampak MAKHLUK?
Kan situ i dah tulis terang2 better late than never..
yg sebelum ni usaha usaha telah dijalankan untuk menuntut isu yg sama pada masjid
masjid sebelum ini makna kata ada insiatif dan idea untuk ke arah itu dan menjawab persoalan why now - well not now but before this there have been some initiatives made to execute the same status for the rest of the mosques
Post time 11-7-2020 03:27 PM
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