Are there any Christian churches in Iberia or the Balkans that were originally constructed to be Muslim mosques?
Córdoba Cathedral
>>1107583
Living in thessaloniki,most christian churches in use still were christian to begin with except some mosques who were either demolished(after the liberation circa 1912) or survived as museums or cultural places of sorts.Most minarets were demolished too with the exception of rotunda,a temple that was used as a pagan christian and islamic temple.generally in christian dominating areas most mosques were either destroyed or made into galeries museums or just were totally ruined.generally in southern balkan that was the case.
so very few instances of mosque turned christian temple stands.
>>1107583
There's one in the city center of Pecs, Hungary. It's pretty cool.
>>1107691
On a scale from 1 to 10, how much are the Turks (Norman or youtobe comment ones) trying to use that as an example for why the Greeks really were the genocidal bad guys?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosque%E2%80%93Cathedral_of_C%C3%B3rdoba
>>1107900
Greeks were the original genocidal bad guys. When they manage to create Greece they exterminated all the jews and muslims (not just turks) that lived there. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Tripolitsa#Massacre_of_civilians
The Turks never use it as an example though. Most don't even know about it since Turkish education focuses on having friendly relations with their neighbors. Unlike in Greece for example where people are educated to hate Turks.
>>1107900
the community of muslims in west thrace(a percentage of them is ethnickly turkish and other half think themselves as muslim greeks) is in general terms fine with the greeks
>>1108134
>1821
>original genocidal bad guys
>>1108134
well mate the jews were attacked only in certain sieges and just becuase they were the rich people.imagine that it took hitler to kill the jews of thessaloniki and they were 30-40% of the city in the early 20th century.my house is opposite to a jewish cemetary and i see the few officials and distant relatives of the jews that were sent to their deaths from thessaloniki to the concentrations camps and they have a fine relationship with the greeks.but their community,sadly fotr the culture of the city was extinguished.
most greeks are fine with the turks but thorns like the pogrom agiant the greek people of istanbul in the 1950s and the constant overflights of turkish fighters over aegean make it hard to forget the hatred of the centuries.
Also talking about genocides there is a painting in louvre by delacroix and a story behind chios and psara islands that you will find interesting during the greek rebellion of 1821.
btw i am greek
its sad that many ottoman monuments were destroyed either by the fire of 1917 or by religious strife as the minarets of greek cities except those of western thrace.But turning 1000 years old churches to mosques just because THEY WAZ CONQUERORS makes a bad case for the cultural products of the ottomans(not exactly the turks,at least when talking about the elite class and court of the Porte) during the ottoman occupation of the balkans
>>1108134
>>1108170
You have both written longer posts without any trace of personal insults, let us now keep it like that instead of turning this into yet another balkan thread!
>>1108170
Not to defend the massacres or anything, obviously both sides are wrong but just for your information Chios was a reaction to the massacre of Turks in 1821 in Navarino and Tripoli.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navarino_massacre
>>1108179
Fuck Bosnia
There are quite a few in Spain, most notably the Corduba Cathedral.
also fun fact, the Dome of the Rock was converted into a Christian Church during the 200 year rule of the crusaders in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, where they named it the Templum Domini.
>>1108192
It was not in the same scale.moreover even the world powers who in the early years of the war were very anti rebellion because of the constant uproar after 1789 and napoleon were repulsed at the sight of the hell in chios.Even the symbolical hanging of the patriarch in istanbul was less of a shock. we are talking about close to 50.000 people expelled and at least one third of them dying or sold as slaves.
Of course there was a retaliation from the ottomans.it was war after all.
but it was out of the control of the high command and it made them look very bad politcally speaking.
>>1108179
reconquista or bust
>>1108247
350 years of submission to foreigners while still trying to get the power yourself makes for a bad advisor in matters of chivalry and war honor.
even ''civilized'' armies had atrocities on their back.greeks were then rag-robed fanatics with no concept of modern geneva conventions.it was jungle in the balkans from both sides
>>1108247
Of course the world powers were "repulsed'. They had interest in it. Especially Russia who saw it as a great excuse to attack Turkey under the pretext of "muh christian brothers are being killed". They wanted access to the Bosphoros for a long time. Do you think the Russians cares about the Turks that were killed a year before? Of course not. World powers only act in interests. Just like how Britain and France had an interest in creating a Greek puppet while at the same time supporting Turkey a few decades later to prevent Russians from gaining access to the Mediterranean while again a few decades later tried to take over the bosphoros themselves in the Gallipoli campaign. That fact that you mention that the world powers were "repulsed" is laughable. You have a lot to learn about politics.
>>1107583
The Alhambra in Cordoba
