Our efforts came to fruition since Hagia Sophia became again a mosque, said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan upon his departure from the first official Muslim prayer in Hagia Sophia.
The Turkish president, accompanied by Devlet Bahçeli, stressed that the conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque did not let their nation wait long.
Finally, he stated that he hoped that Hagia Sophia would be able to serve all the faithful as a mosque, however, as he stated, “as a cultural heritage of all humanity, it is a place where people of all religions can come and visit it.”