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During the summer months for those who think the name ‘sea-sand-sun’ trilogy brings Antalya, which hosted the winter ‘culture to tourists or used differently rundown meet with church. In the worst case is considered one of the 
symbols of the city of Broken Minaret Sense or with the original name or Hagia Eirene Church of Panagia. Today, the structure is at a crossroads. Will be converted into museums or mosques or churches will be included in the list.
During the summer months for those who think the name ‘sea-sand-sun’ trilogy brings Antalya, which hosted the winter ‘culture to tourists or used differently rundown meet with church. In the worst case is considered one of the symbols of the city of Broken Minaret Sense or with the original name or Hagia Eirene Church of Panagia. Today, the structure is at a crossroads. Will be converted into museums or mosques or churches will be included in the list. Just as the church of Hagia Sophia in Nicaea and Trabzon …
In the ancient world, built a temple built of stone, 13 century by the Seljuks in the 16th after seizing more than three centuries century minaret to be built with the altar in the apse added and converted into a mosque Hagia Eirene Church today will be opened to re-Muslim place of worship is discussed.
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Part of the facade and the entrance was undergoing repairs in 1974, around the church, surrounded by rubble stone walls and iron railings were removed in 1992 for the first decision. Antalya Cultural and Natural Heritage Protection Board’s decision to do in the ‘open air museum’ of the structure as repairing and ruin were asked to do. Founded in 1999 in its decision dated to the region’s science mission of each semester requesting the creation in 2012 of the Regional Directorate of Foundations has requested to use the structure as a mosque. However, this request was rejected by the Regional Council for the Protection of Cultural Property in Antalya was.
Thereupon Regional Directorate of Foundations, the decision of the High Council for the Protection of Cultural Heritage took. The Board has accepted the appeal of 26 September 2012, the General Directorate of Foundations for use as a mosque for protection from relevant municipal zoning plan changes to be made in the bottom of the decision is requested. This decision to stop the lawsuit was launched by the Chamber of Architects. The outcome of litigation, the court has decided to stop the execution. Following the decision to have stopped for now, though attempts to mosque building today are looking for destiny. The future is uncertain what will happen …
Source: Agos