UNESCO's own official statement on Hagia Sophia, issued 10 July 2020 by the World Heritage Centre, is a primary institutional document. Its strength is that it is the international body's own contemporaneous response to Turkey's reconversion of the site from a state museum to an active mosque, following the Council of State's ruling and presidential decree of 2 July 2020. Its limit is that it is a diplomatic institutional statement responding to an event, not a scholarly history of the building; it replaces an earlier, era-mismatched 1988 architectural history source that had been mistakenly attached to this fact.
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Tier one: the international body's own primary institutional statement, issued by the World Heritage Centre in direct response to Turkey's 2020 reconversion of Hagia Sophia. Its limit is that it is a diplomatic institutional statement responding to an event, not a scholarly history of the building; it replaces an earlier, era mismatched 1988 architectural history source mistakenly attached to this fact. NotesUNESCO World Heritage Centre's own official statement, issued 10 July 2020, on Turkey's reconversion of Hagia Sophia from a state museum to an active mosque, following the Council of State's 2 July 2020 ruling and the presidential decree the same day. The correct, era-honest citation for the Mosque site-type value, replacing the 1988 Byzantine-era architectural history that had been mistakenly attached to it.
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AuthorUNESCO World Heritage Centre (Director-General Audrey Azoulay)
PublisherUNESCO World Heritage Centre
Publication Year2020
URLhttps://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2197
Source TypeInternational body
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This source names Sophia directly: "own official statement on Hagia Sophia, issued 10 July 2020 by the World Heritage Centre, is a primary institutional document."
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- Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Sacred Sites, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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