{"id":20575,"date":"2024-02-04T22:04:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T22:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=20575"},"modified":"2024-02-04T22:04:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T22:04:58","slug":"historical-examples-of-the-conversion-of-european-churches-into-mosques-and-back-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2024\/02\/04\/historical-examples-of-the-conversion-of-european-churches-into-mosques-and-back-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Examples of the Conversion of European Churches into Mosques and Back Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>USA, February 4, 2024 (X, amit agarwal): Hundreds of churches were reconverted from mosques in Greece and other Eastern European countries in 1900s, without opposition. This X post has eleven examples. The first is on the Greek Parthenon, originally a pagan temple. In the 6th century it was converted to a Church, then in the 15th into a mosque. That mosque was demolished in 1932 after Greek independence. <br><br>X post: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/amit1119\/status\/1754078315617698244?s=20\">https:\/\/x.com\/amit1119\/status\/1754078315617698244?s=20<\/a><br><br>see also: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parthenon_mosque\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parthenon_mosque<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/Is-it-true-that-there-was-a-mosque-inside-the-Parthenon-during-the-Ottoman-era\">https:\/\/www.quora.com\/Is-it-true-that-there-was-a-mosque-inside-the-Parthenon-during-the-Ottoman-era<\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA, February 4, 2024 (X, amit agarwal): Hundreds of churches were reconverted from mosques in Greece and other Eastern European,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20591,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20575\/revisions\/20591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}