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Syria will build a new Hagia Sophia with Russian assistance to protest against Turkey

The Syrian government has announced that it will build a replica of the Hagia Sophia, according to Lebanon’s Al-Modon media.

This in opposition to the Turkish regime’s conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque.

A leader of the pro-Syrian government National Defense Forces militia, Nabeul Al-Abdullah, obtained the approval of Bishop Nicola Baalbaki, the Metropolitan of Hama and its dependencies to build a new church in the city of Suqaylabiyah in Hama province.

More than 17,000 residents of Suqaylabiyah are overwhelmingly Greek Orthodox.

Al-Modon said that the funding for the construction of the church is the first practical and indirect response from Russia to express its anger against Turkey for converting Hagia Sophia.

 

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