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2014-11-30 The Grand Turk

Pope Pays Historic Visit To Istanbul Mosque, Celebrates Mass At Catholic Cathedral

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-11-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 If he was like me, his primary thought about the Blue Mosque was how much I'd have preferred the imperial palace stick be standing there.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2014-11-30 09:06|| 2014-11-30 09:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Ugh stick == still.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2014-11-30 09:06|| 2014-11-30 09:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Francis also toured the Hagia Sophia, the great Byzantine church that was turned into a mosque after the conquest of Constantinople but then became a secular museum for all in modern day Turkey.

Second (Third or Fourth) most holy site in Eastern Orthodox Christianity?

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-11-30 09:35|| 2014-11-30 09:35|| Front Page Top

#4 First, P2k, first.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-11-30 09:52|| 2014-11-30 09:52|| Front Page Top

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