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Apart from the shock caused by the fact, that yesterday a morning prayer from the Koran was read in the Hagia Sophia, another shock came from a statement on the issue by Deputy Foreign Minister Nikos Xidakis: "This is nothing tragic ..." .

Reporting on the visit by the Ecumenical Patriarch to Germany, Deutsche Welle mentions that the issue of Hagia Sophia being turned into a Mosque outraged the German chancellor.

Concern has spread across the Christian community after Turkish media suggested that the Basilica of Hagia Sophia, could become a centre of Islamic worship.