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Church, mosque or museum?
A centuries-old dispute over ownership of the ancient church of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul has re-surfaced with the Turkish government encouraging Muslim prayers to be said there. It's now a museum but was also a mosque for almost 500 years. Tom Holland is a historian.
(Photo: the interior of Hagia Sophia Credit: AFP)
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