Please find attached below an English and Greek copy of a Pastoral Letter from His Eminence Metropolitan Evangelos regarding the Holy Church, AGIA SOPHIA, and the efforts of the Turkish government to transform it into a mosque.  This Great Church is a touchstone to the earliest expressions of Byzantine Christianity in Constantinople.  It must always remain a Church.  Please pray fervently for this historic Orthodox Christian Church.

Attachments:
AGIA SOPHIA STATEMEENT GREEK.pdf
AGIA SOPHIA STATEMENT ENGLISH.pdf