Factbox: Hagia Sophia's changing status over centuries of history
Friday prayers were held at Istanbul's Hagia Sophia for the first time since President Tayyip Erdogan declared the building a mosque once again.
It served as a Christian Byzantine cathedral for 900 years before Ottoman conquerors seized it.
Muslims prayed there until 1934 when it was turned into a museum...
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