German Chancellor Angela Merkel has toured the 1,500-year-old Haghia Sophia, a former Byzantine church, as part of her visit to Turkey, an overwhelmingly Muslim EU-candidate country.
The domed complex was for centuries a majestic center of Christianity before Constantinople _ now Istanbul _ was conquered by Muslim armies in 1453. The site was a mosque until 1935, when it was converted to a museum …
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