{"id":1105,"date":"2018-12-20T15:25:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T15:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2022-10-03T18:36:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T18:36:37","slug":"converted-christian-and-islamic-architecture-a-path-to-understanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/15\/converted-christian-and-islamic-architecture-a-path-to-understanding\/","title":{"rendered":"Converted Christian and Islamic Architecture: A Path to Understanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&#8220;By looking at these converted pieces of architecture, and the conversation &#8212; both negative and positive &#8212; surrounding their religious changes, it becomes clear that it is possible for Islam and Christianity to peacefully coexist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although the Hagia Sophia is a physical place of connection, it also weaves people and their faiths together through the subtlety of its religious history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The main point of resistance with this mosque, it seems, was fear of the new and unknown. This example makes clear that if people of different religions could understand &#8212; or at least try to learn about &#8212; each other, religious coexistence could be learned.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>by Serena Hoffman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/converted-christian-and-islamic-architecture-a-path-to-understanding\/\">Converted Christian and Islamic Architecture: A Path to Understanding<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;By looking at these converted pieces of architecture, and the conversation &#8212; both negative and positive &#8212; surrounding their religious changes, it becomes clear that it is possible for Islam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1106,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions\/1106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}