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# The Ayodhya Temple-Mosque Dispute: Focus on Muslim Sources c19.3

The Ayodhya Temple-Mosque Dispute: Focus on Muslim Sources c19.3

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### [c19.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.narain-1993.c19.3)

In fact, it is never too late to mend, and right the wrong done to a nation and continuing to prove an eyesore to it. The Osmanli Turks converted Constantinople's great Cathedral of Santa Sophia into a mosque named Apa Suphiạ in 1453. The Cathedral had been the centre of the Greek Orthodox Church for nine hundred years and the greatest achievement of Byzantine art. Kamāl Atāturk took the earliest opportunity to right the historical wrong by converting the mosque into a museum of Byzȧntine glory.

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