L'ex-église Saint-Sauveur-in-Chora d'Istanbul rouvre ses portes en tant que mosquée

l'ex-église saint-sauveur-in-chora d'istanbul rouvre ses portes en tant que mosquée

Le président turc Recep Tayyip Erdogan a célébré lundi à distance la réouverture au culte de l’ancienne église orthodoxe Saint-Sauveur-in-Chora d’Istanbul, fermée quatre années durant, le temps de sa reconversion en mosquée.

Le chef de l’Etat turc avait ordonné à l’été 2020 la reconversion de cette ex-église byzantine emblématique, un mois après la réouverture au culte musulman de la célèbre basilique Sainte-Sophie.

Construite par les Byzantins au 5e siècle, l’église Saint-Sauveur-in-Chora, aussi appelée église de la Chora (Kariye, en turc), avait été convertie en mosquée après la prise de Constantinople par les Ottomans en 1453, puis en musée après la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

Outre son histoire millénaire rivalisant avec celle de Sainte-Sophie, l’église de la Chora est surtout connue pour ses magnifiques mosaïques et fresques datant du 14e siècle, dont une monumentale composition du Jugement dernier.

Au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l’édifice avait subi une longue restauration menée par une équipe d’historiens de l’art américains et été ouvert au public en tant que musée en 1958.

L’annonce en 2020 de sa reconversion en mosquée avait suscité des craintes pour la survie des mosaïques et fresques de l’édifice, l’islam interdisant les représentations figuratives.

La Grèce avait alors dénoncé “une autre provocation envers les croyants et la communauté internationale”.

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