In 2020, the Byzantine-era construction was once became again right into a mosque, and went from the keep watch over of the Division of Antiquities to the Division of Spiritual Affairs.
Dorian Batycka, June 29, 2022
Various marble tiles at the flooring of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, which was once became again right into a mosque in 2020 after serving as a ancient museum for many years, have reportedly been cracked by means of heavy equipment used to scrub the construction closing week. In keeping with the Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet, a excursion information at the web site mentioned, “This historical construction has confronted super harm. When Hagia Sophia was once a museum, folks visited it with nice appreciate. It’s like a fairground now.” 
The UNESCO International Heritage Web site is thought of as to be probably the most necessary devout and cultural websites on this planet, held in particular regard by means of each Christians and Muslims alike. Constructed between 532 and 537 by means of the Jap Roman Emperor Justinian I, when town was once referred to as Constantinople, it is without doubt one of the largest examples of Byzantine-era structure. It was once  to begin with the biggest Christian cathedral on this planet, however was once transformed right into a mosque following the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire in 1453. Turkish chief Mustafa Kemal Ataturk became Hagia Sophia right into a museum in 1935, mentioning or not it’s “open to the visits of all countries and religions.”
Its fresh alternate in standing from a museum again right into a mosque sparked controversy around the heritage global. It additionally supposed an administrative alternate too, since Hagia Sophia went from the keep watch over of the Division of Antiquities, which is a part of the Ministry of Tradition, to the Division of Spiritual Affairs.
During the construction’s lengthy and storied historical past, numerous relics and mosaics were misplaced, stolen or broken. Since its reconversion right into a mosque, experiences have surfaced documenting different varieties of harm on the web site, together with to the Imperial Gate, which dates again to the 6th century. Referred to as the Door of Repentance, it comprises an icon of Jesus along certainly one of Mary of Egypt and the Theotokos, all of which have been introduced from the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. 
On 18 April 2022, a gaggle known as the Turkish Affiliation of Artwork Historians documented vandalism to the 7-meter-tall gate, which the Byzantines claimed was once produced from oak beams taken without delay from Noah’s Ark. In a Twitter publish, the gang confirmed gouges made deep into the wooden and mentioned: “We came upon that the historical Imperial Gate of Hagia Sophia is in the sort of state and we photographed it, round 20:45 this night.”
The incidents have raised questions on how the web site is being preserved because it was once opened for normal devout worship. Marie-Eve Lafontaine, an artwork historian who research medieval artwork and conservation practices, says that whilst the conservation of the sort of important piece of structure is rarely with out difficulties, “it’s necessary to remember the fact that holy websites, whether or not church or mosque, have at all times been supposed for day by day use.” 
She added that “as artwork historians and conservationists, we will simplest hope that guests, devout or non-religious, deal with the structure with appreciate, in addition to the ones governments which might be entrusted with the care and preserving of exact cultural heritage without reference to devout association.”
Others are extra important of the Turkish govt’s technique to Hagia Sophia’s maintenance. In keeping with Arie Amaya-Akkermans, a classicist and fervent cultural commentator based totally in Istanbul, the reconversion of the construction right into a mosque is an emblem of modern Turkey, “the place heritage of the ‘different’ is destroyed and plundered in extensive sunlight to make method for out of control building or just for the excitement of vandalism.”
Turns out just like the Hagia Sophia has long past thru any other spherical of reconversion, this time to a extra acquainted deity. %.twitter.com/4qnhbyKEFl
— Arie Amaya-Akkermans (@byzantinologue) April 14, 2022

In an previous tweet appearing a Minnie Mouse balloon floating subsequent to the historical mosaics on construction’s ceilings, Amaya-Akkermans lately speculated that the carnivalesque environment across the Hagia Sophia has in the end ended in its determination to a extra acquainted deity. 
“The imagery on social media is terrifying,” Amaya-Akkermans instructed Artnet Information. “The crowds, meals applications strewn around the flooring, folks chipping portions of the partitions, and now the cracked flooring. What’s the take out of this? Selective heritage coverage virtually totally as a automobile of propaganda.”

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