Does Islam allow turning churches into mosques?

first and it was in its original form a cathedral and it was at one point the largest Christian Cathedral in Christendom if that's what it was claimed to be the largest in Christendom if not at least in the eastern part of the whole Christian world the Byzantine dynasty and which was the kind of Roman dynasty in in the east so that's what it was up until Sultan

father muhammad al-fatih he conquers and then they convert it into a Masjid so the question is first of all should we be converting places of worship into massage this is one question we want to look at secondly okay even I mean that's secondly should we in now be reconverting something to a Masjid so the first is the original conversion and then the reconversion to a Masjid what are our thoughts on all of

this that's the backdrop to it I would say and adding to that in the time of the Salaf when we look at the sahabas time many of them did not like when you look at the rulers like oh my ribbon or ha ha Brody Luhan when he conquered Jerusalem he didn't convert the holy sites into mush kids and even though he was given an opportunity and there wasn't there was no resistance to say now Mars entrance to Jerusalem he did not convert the you know the Church of the Holy Sepulchre or other or other

kind of holy sites to cruise to Muslim holy sites he didn't do that and that was never the objective of Islam okay now this thing of the aya sofya this was converted in Sultan Fatih time to Masjid some people claimed he even paid some Christians for it and I think historically whether they did it or not is something which whether they did it or not it happened Halas it happened I don't think Islam encourages

you to convert holy sites into my streets so for example if we look at the Quran we will have in surah al-hajj Allah speaks about people who are given power it's a lot in verse 41 he mentions who these people are they are people who have been given power alladhina in McCann now fill of people whom if we gave them dominion over a certain land or in the earth they establish the Salah upon mosul ottawa Atta was the cutter

well I'm a rouble Marouf you wonder how anil munkar they established worship for people they established a welfare system for people's occurred and what Amuro Vilma roof and they commanded kindness and goodness and prevented that which was harmful well healer he RT bottle more and indeed to Allah belongs the end of this affair or of all affairs but the verse before that Allah speaks so the one just preceding that bleeding into that

mentions well o ladder for lioness about the humbly bow if Allah had not set up a certain people to resist against another group of people LaHood Demuth's awawa beer o masala Wotton were masajid youth curuvija swallow the kathira and three ends and feeha catherine hawley answerin allahu my anthro in allah allah allah aziz so to repeat that low letter a lioness about Dombey Bob if Allah had not set up a group of people to resist

an opposing group lahood limits awamiya monasteries places of worship beyond people say synagogues was salah Wotton and areas for restricted or restricted areas for prayer masajid that these things would have all been destroyed use kuru fearsome a logic a theorem in in all of these places a large name is glorified often now notice losses about salami ax about Christian monasteries a large name is

glorified in them so and synagogues Allah does not say and this is you know surah al-hajj this is speaking this is in Medina Allah is speaking about how Muslims should be because he goes on to say alladhina in McCann nouns they love who are these people these are those people who if we give them Dominion this is what they do but they would prevent such things tragedies from happening so Islam does not set out to convert holy sites to mosques it's never that's never

been the goal of Islam but people Muslims have done that ok many not just Muslims many people have done that one may argue that one of the reasons they did that is because that these were the main buildings in their time so people built you know their places of worship as major buildings so whenever a new community came they saw that major building and they thought yeah that's you know that's a perfect choice to make it into a prayer facility since it's designed like that and you see that Muslims did that Christians did that in