Pastor Mark in the Hagia Sophia

Pastor Mark explains the historical significance of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey and invites you to join him on the trip to Turkey in 2011.

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Education

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• churches of turkey
• turkey
• 2011
• hagia sophia
• travel
• expeditions
• mark driscoll
• pastor mark

[lilblkboi]

@mrknikers2 Are u telling me, that in all of the adjective words in the english language, u could not find another word to describe him other than the f word, my friend?

[TVrawks301]

Nice church in the beginning. I'm sorry that the Islamic religion ruined it.

[CheckTheBoxTwice]

@shamsham1983 There aren't any pagan gods at the Vatican. Your mind is simply too small to understand small pieces of theology that children understand with perfect clarity.

[CheckTheBoxTwice]

Wow, where to start? This man calls a Father among the Saints a mere pastor? Christianity was small then? Bible college quibbling? This man obviously doesn't know the significance of so great a basilica. Notice he only mentioned Christ being in the mosaics when the camera was pointed at a mosaic of the Christ child and Mary as the Theotokos.

[RexLawson4eva]

@TVrawks301 I know, islam comes to steal kill and destroy, sound familiar anyone?

[shamsham1983]

No pagan gods like in vatican?

[ikilicoglu]

You need to get some facts straight. The city was sacked by Chrisians during the crusades, not by Muslims.

[norelojon]

@TVrawks301 i don't understand what you mean.

Case 1: Ottomans built hundreds of places in the Europe, after all Ottomans ruled much of the eastern Europe for hundreds of years. When western savages took over the land, they demolished all the buildings and converted some of them to church.

Case 2: When ottomans took Christian lands, they converted some of them to mosque but left majority of them as they are. Which one is more civilized? And it was hundreds of years before than other case.

[TVrawks301]

@norelojon Hmmm, last time I checked, the Ottoman Empire developed around 1288 AD, which may mean it was a little younger than this church that is being discussed. And, you're saying they were tolerant? LOL They must've missed a spot! ;) Nevertheless, I'm having trouble seeing where your argument about the Ottoman Empire is even relevant to this video, save for the fact that they were Muslim (correct me if I’m wrong) in which case still fails to make a point- could you try again?

[norelojon]

@TVrawks301 loool ruined? that was funny.

Turkey is the triumph of the eastern tolerance, in terms of respect to historic places. Most of the ancient buildings are not touched. Ottoman Empire ruled much of the Eastern Europe, and they built hundreds of places. %99 OF THEM were demolished or converted to churches, by western savages.

So, typical western ignorance. You were living like savages for 1000 years, now talking about other civilizations? come on.

[mammaTurki]

don't forget srebrenica....