ANKARA, Turkey — The Turkish government formally converted a former Byzantine church into a mosque Friday, a move that came a month after it drew praise from the faithful and international opposition ...

The imam of the Khadija Mosque, in the Pankow district of Berlin, talks to visitors. Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images For decades, the Turkish government has sent imams to work in ...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The traditional lighting that hangs between the minarets of Turkish mosques, usually packed for evening prayers in the holy month of Ramadan, is urging Turks to stay at home this ...

ANKARA, Turkey — 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 ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The president of Turkey on Friday formally converted Istanbul’s sixth-century Hagia Sophia back into a mosque and declared it open for Muslim worship, hours after a high court ...

Pope Leo XIV visited a historic mosque in Turkey during his first foreign trip — and although he customarily took off his shoes, the pontiff declined to join in prayer, according to reports. The ...

The court ruling overturns a 1934 government decree, which converted Istanbul's religious monument into a museum Joelle Goldstein is a Senior News Editor on the TV team for PEOPLE Digital. She has ...

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Pope Leo XIV started his third day in Turkey on Saturday with a visit to the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Istanbul. The visit was a gesture of respect towards the Islamic world, fraternity with Muslims, and ...

ANKARA, Turkey — The president of Turkey on Friday formally reconverted Istanbul’s sixth-century Hagia Sophia into a mosque and declared it open for Muslim worship, hours after a high court annulled a ...

Like the Hagia Sophia, the fourth-century Chora monastery in Istanbul was operating as a museum. The Turkish government formally converted a former Byzantine church into a mosque Friday, a move that ...