The Return of Jesus

8.2 Jesus’s Return and Hagia Sophia

When Jesus returns, let us imagine that he will visit Hagia Sophia, walk beneath its dome and see the Christian and Islamic traditions entwined. Finding it a mosque where the Oneness of God is proclaimed five times a day, he would see a reflection to what he preached in the hills of Galilee in Palestine and an echo of his own core message.

Under his leadership, Hagia Sophia will stand no longer as a prize of conquest or a site of debate, but as a global beacon of monotheism, peace and prosperity.

The stones of Hagia Sophia have witnessed more than the rise and fall of empires; they have stood as a silent theater for a fundamental debate in human history: the nature of God.