World Heritage Watch Report 2023 - Helen Methodiou on the existential threats facing Hagia Sophia

World Heritage Watch Report 2023, pp. 52 ff

The decision by the Turkish authorities in 2020 to convert Hagia Sophia and the Monastery of Christ at Chora in Istanbul into mosques had an impact on the credibility of the World Heritage Convention, in at least one of its five strategic objectives (Credibility, Conservation, Capacity-building, Communication, Communities)  ... more>>