Chora Museum

Why in news?

• Turkey’s government has decided to convert  Chora (Kariya) museum in Istanbul, which has been a museum for over 70 years, into a working mosque.

About the Place:

• The Holy Saviour in Chora was a medieval Byzantine church.
• It was originally built in the early 4th century as part of a monastery complex outside the city
• It is decorated with 14th-century frescoes of the Last Judgement that remain treasured in the Christian world.
• It was originally converted into the Kariye Mosque half a century after the 1453 conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks.
• It became the Kariye Museum after Second World War as Turkey pushed ahead with the creation of a more secular new republic out of the ashes of the Ottoman Empire.
• The change will  add to Turkey’s tensions with Greece and its Orthodox Church.

PRELIMS QUESTION

Chora Museum is a medieval monument located in:
(a)Armenia
(b)Italy
(c)Spain
(d)Turkey

Answer to prelims question