Was it haram for the Ottomans to turn the Hagia Sophia into a mosque?

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

Muslim Spain they did that as well you know they turn many of the must shades but to be fair Muslims when they took over they turned the Christian things into Masjid they also when they took over turn the Muslim things into Christian cathedrals it seemed to be you know back and forth a kind of law of the jungle that took place in the medieval times it was neither it was not encouraged by Islam but it wasn't prohibited if it was just something that seems to have been the politics of men that they did so okay just to be clear on that so

if they did it in the past I'm not saying it was haram it wasn't I suppose they've kind of conquered and this is what they did I don't think it was a good thing I don't think it's a good thing but I wouldn't say it was haram per se because it was their politics it was their kind of battles it was what they were doing you know everybody seemed to be like a a practice that people were doing like the way they took slaves I think that's a it was a detestable thing but the whole world was doing it Muslims were doing it Christians were doing everybody was doing it so it's like that now the

question is that it did become a must see them for many centuries it remained a Masjid now when Turkey was set out as a separate state nation-state in the kind of decades that followed you see that this Hagia Sophia the aya sofya was turned into just a museum now the argument has come that we need to convert this back into a Masjid why because it was once upon a time a Masjid this is the crux of the argument that why should we turn this into mush it