Ik had het hier vooral over het OVERNEMEN van bestaande gebedsplaatsen. Blijkbaar is dat een zeer leuke gewoonte geworden:
zoek op google = church and mosque
(ik zat nog maar op pag.6 )
Cyprus:
Omeriye Mosque Near the main Municipal Market within the walled city.
Converted into a mosque in 1571 by Mustapha Pasha. Most of the original building was destroyed by Ottoman artillery. The door of the main entrance belongs to the 14th-century Lusignan building.
300 years Old Church was Converted to Mosque with One Petition
by Kurdish Observer, October 20, 2000.
Posted: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 01:30 am CST
MARDIN, Turkey (Kurdish Observer) - Rejections for converting a 300 years old Assyrian church to mosque in the Bare village in Mardin province’s Midyat district fall on deaf ears. Assyrians said that if the internal laws do not provide a solution then, they will apply to international laws.
Kalkan:
http://www.kalkanturkey.com/daphne_p...rch_mosque.htm
LALA MUSTAFA PASHA MOSQUE
It is the most beautiful and impressive transplantation of Mediaeval Gothic architecture in the east. It was built by the . Lusignans in 1289-1312. It was in this Cathedral, that the Lusignan Kings of Cyprus were crowned as the Kings of Jerusalem and this was where Queen Catherine Cornaro had signed her abdication which gave the island to the Venetians.
After the conquest of Cyprus by the Turks it was converted into a mosque with some alterations made to it without causing any harm to its originality and beauty. And until 1954 it was called by Turks as the '' St.Sophia Mosque of Gazimagosa, but in that year its name was changed to ''Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque'' after the name of the Commander-in chief of the Turkish army who conquered Cyprus, in 1571.
Former İmaret Mosque (Pantepoptes Monastery Church
Sinan Pasha Mosque (Church of St Peter and Paul)
images/mq-sinanpasha.gif
images/mq-sinanpasha.gifThis was originally a church built in 1359 with funds donated by a successful merchant called Simon Nostrano during the reign of Pierre I.
When Turks conquered Istanbul in 1453, the first thing Mehmed "the Conqueror" did was to order the conversion of the church into a mosque. Because he believed that this was written in Holy Koran that Istanbul should be conquered and turned to be an Islamic Land. From then on, the Church served as a great mosque, with four minarets added in different periods. The mosaics on the walls were covered with plaster because they were forbidden in Islam.