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To: LindyBill who wrote (223834)10/12/2007 4:24:26 PM
From: goldworldnet  Read Replies (1) of 793840
 
The conversion of non-Islamic places of worship into mosques has abated it modern times due to no major terretorial acquisitions of Islam in recent times. However, some of the Greek Orthodox churches in Turkey that were left behind by expelled Greeks in 1923 were converted into mosques recently. A relatively significant surge in church- mosque conversion followed the 1974 Turkish Invasion of Cyprus. Many of the Orthodox churches in Northern Cyprus have been converted, and many are still in the process of becoming mosques.[2][3] This practice has sparked considerable contempt in the Greek Cypriot community, and is likely to complicate the reconciliation with the Turkish Cypriots.

During the World War II, the authorities of the Nazi-puppet Independent State of Croatia tried to ally with the Bosniaks whom they considered to be "Muslim Croats". As a token, the Artists Gallery museum (by Ivan Mestrovic) in Zagreb was furnished with minarets and ceded to be used as a mosque.

In many areas with surges in a new Islamic population (e.g. much of the United States,United Kingdom)[17], buildings once housing churches and other religious congregations have been converted into mosques due to the decrease of Christian religiosity.

en.wikipedia.org

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