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Prayers at Istanbul's Hagia Sophia for NZ victims

(16 Mar 2019) A few hundred demonstrators on Saturday protested the New Zealand mosque shootings outside Istanbul's Hagia Sophia - a Byzantine-era cathedral that was turned into a mosque and now serves as a museum. The demonstrators,  mostly members of Islamic-leaning civil society groups, called for the symbolic edifice to be reconverted into a mosque. The demand was in response to a taunt made by the assailant in a 74-page manifesto in which he reportedly said "Hagia Sophia will free of minarets." The demonstrators also held funeral prayers for the attack's victims. The former Byzantine cathedral was converted into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest of Istanbul in 1453. Turkey's secular founder turned the structure into a museum in 1935 that attracts millions of tourists each year.    There have been increasing calls for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government to convert the structure back into a mosque. Erdogan himself recited prayers inside the Hagia Sophia last year. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...