The Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church has issued an official position on the reconversion of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul into a mosque: “As a millennial shrine for all Christianity and a spiritual center of Orthodoxy, this temple is dear..
"We join the calls of the international community to preserve the existing access to the monument, given its history and its symbolic significance for Christianity and Islam . We expect the universal historical value of the monument to be preserved as..
