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On July 10, 2020, President Erdogan signed a decree allowing the Hagia Sophia to be reconverted into a mosque. The move came after an administrative court annulled the Cabinet’s 1934 decision, signed by the founder of the Republic of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, himself. The Hagia Sophia, or Great Mosque of Ayasofya as it is officially named, is now all set to begin daily Muslim prayers from July 24. As I sit here, reading about Turkey’s decision to reconvert the Hagia Sophia into a mosque, I ...