In 2020, the Byzantine-era development was once grew to become again right into a mosque, and went from the keep watch over of the Division of Antiquities to the Division of Non secular Affairs.
Dorian Batycka, June 29, 2022
Numerous marble tiles at the flooring of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, which was once grew to become again right into a mosque in 2020 after serving as a historic museum for many years, have reportedly been cracked by means of heavy equipment used to wash the development ultimate week. In keeping with the Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet, a excursion information at the web page mentioned, “This ancient development has confronted super injury. When Hagia Sophia was once a museum, other people visited it with nice recognize. It’s like a fairground now.” 
The UNESCO International Heritage Web site is thought of as to be one of the vital devout and cultural websites on the planet, held in particular regard by means of each Christians and Muslims alike. Constructed between 532 and 537 by means of the Japanese Roman Emperor Justinian I, when the town was once referred to as Constantinople, it is likely one of the largest examples of Byzantine-era structure. It was once  to start with the biggest Christian cathedral on the 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 grew to become Hagia Sophia right into a museum in 1935, stating or not it’s “open to the visits of all countries and religions.”
Its fresh exchange in standing from a museum again right into a mosque sparked controversy around the heritage global. It additionally supposed an administrative exchange 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 Non secular Affairs.
All over the development’s lengthy and storied historical past, numerous relics and mosaics had been misplaced, stolen or broken. Since its reconversion right into a mosque, stories have surfaced documenting different types of injury on the web page, together with to the Imperial Gate, which dates again to the 6th century. Referred to as the Door of Repentance, it accommodates an icon of Jesus along one in all 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 created from oak beams taken immediately from Noah’s Ark. In a Twitter publish, the crowd confirmed gouges made deep into the picket and mentioned: “We found out that the ancient Imperial Gate of Hagia Sophia is in one of these state and we photographed it, round 20:45 this night.”
The incidents have raised questions on how the web page 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 one of these vital piece of structure is rarely with out difficulties, “it’s vital to understand that holy websites, whether or not church or mosque, have all the time been meant for day by day use.” 
She added that “as artwork historians and conservationists, we will be able to simplest hope that guests, devout or non-religious, deal with the structure with recognize, in addition to the ones governments that are entrusted with the care and retaining of actual cultural heritage without reference to devout association.”
Others are extra important of the Turkish executive’s solution to Hagia Sophia’s repairs. In keeping with Arie Amaya-Akkermans, a classicist and fervent cultural commentator primarily based in Istanbul, the reconversion of the development right into a mosque is a logo of recent Turkey, “the place heritage of the ‘different’ is destroyed and plundered in large sunlight to make means for out of control construction or just for the excitement of vandalism.”
Turns out just like the Hagia Sophia has long past via 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 ancient mosaics on development’s ceilings, Amaya-Akkermans not too long ago speculated that the carnivalesque environment across the Hagia Sophia has in the end resulted in its willpower to a extra acquainted deity. 
“The imagery on social media is terrifying,” Amaya-Akkermans informed Artnet Information. “The crowds, meals applications strewn around the flooring, other people chipping portions of the partitions, and now the cracked flooring. What’s the take out of this? Selective heritage coverage virtually fully as a car of propaganda.”

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