Egyptian Grand Mufti Shawky Allam said on Saturday that Turkey's conversion of Istanbul's Hagia Sophia into a mosque is impermissible in Islam, Haber 7 news website reported.
“We, as Muslims, are commanded to preserve churches. Prophet Muhammad was always recommending in wars not to destroy temples or kill monks,” Allam said during a televised interview.
Churches and mosques must be preserved around the world, as has been the case during the entirety of Egypt's history, Allam said, making reference to a previous fatwa by Laith bin Saad Fakih of Egypt who ruled that churches are part of earth's architecture in Islam.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared Hagia Sophia a mosque on June 10, after a top court annulled the 6th-century historical site’s conversion to a museum by modern Turkey’s founding father, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. The president’s decree constituted a major step for his party in fulfilling a long-standing demand by its core Islamist voter base.
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