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I Think It's an Urban Phenomenon, Maybe a Forty Ora?

I was aware of it in brick lane, where the huguenot church became a synagogue and then became a mosque afterwards. I think there's a real difficulty, usually, where you have things like icons and altars, because even some christians don't like icons of saints or altars. So a forty ora, i would think there would usually be difficulty with this. But certainly recently, hagia sopi in stambull, which had been a museum for a long time,. well, not a long time, in the twentieth century, reverted to being a mosque. There are some beautiful icons there, which are not portable because they're mosaic. And what

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