What is the 43rd most important mosque in Islam? How about the 624th most important mosque? The 1453 most important one? What the Vatican is to Catholics, that’s the importance of Ayia Sophia to Orthodox Christians. Big man Erdogan. along with many Muslims, wanted to insult hundreds of millions of Christians for the sake of Islam. If they get to see what it looks like back they will be tears of hypocrisy.
Oh… and as atheist I couldn’t care less about Ayia Sophia, Temple mount. Al-Aqsa mosque. Dome of the Rock, Vatican, yada yada. The only value for me these old “holy” buildings have is a museums of human ignorance since of course Christianity, Judaism, Islam., Hinduism et al are built on myths.