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His light is diffused in the air and the light of God is diffused by Hagia Sophia. We do not see the Blinding One in black emptiness. He speaks to us gently in ten thousand things, in which His light ...

Turkey's Hagia Sophia will open to visitors outside prayer times and its Christian icons will remain, religious officials said on Tuesday, after a court ruling paved the way for it to become a mosque.

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