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Summary Background and Context: Hagia Sophia Summary Background and Context: Hagia Sophia
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The Church of Hagia Sophia: History and Significance of the Byzantine Imperial Cathedral The Church of Hagia Sophia: History and Significance of the Byzantine Imperial Cathedral
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The Mosque of Hagia Sophia: History and Significance of the Ottoman Imperial Mosque The Mosque of Hagia Sophia: History and Significance of the Ottoman Imperial Mosque
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The Movement to Reconvert the Museum of Hagia Sophia to the Mosque of Hagia Sophia The Movement to Reconvert the Museum of Hagia Sophia to the Mosque of Hagia Sophia
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The Reconversion of Hagia Sophia and its Spatial Politics and Impact The Reconversion of Hagia Sophia and its Spatial Politics and Impact
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Erdoğanian Neo-Ottomanism’s Reconquest of Constantinople Erdoğanian Neo-Ottomanism’s Reconquest of Constantinople
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5 The Reconversion of Hagia Sophia, 2020: Final Conquest and Victory of the AKP
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Published:November 2023
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Abstract
This chapter analyses the shift from Hagia Sophia’s status as a museum to a mosque in the summer of 2020 as the paradigmatic example of the public dominance and triumphalism of the AKP’s nationalist vision under Erdoğan. The shift in Hagia Sophia’s status marks the high point of the AKP’s use of architecture and public space to exclude multicultural or pluralistic narratives of Turkish national identity. This chapter describes the complex historical and contemporary significance of the physical building of Hagia Sophia in order to explain why it was that Erdoğan and the AKP saw it as absolutely necessary to their spatial political vision to reconvert the museum of Hagia Sophia into the Grand Mosque of Hagia Sophia. This chapter charts in detail the history of the spatial politics of the building of Hagia Sophia, focusing on the historical significance, political and social discourse, public ceremony and physical changes related to the reconversion of the museum of Hagia Sophia into the mosque of Hagia Sophia.
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