This year, the Week of Mosques and Religious Officials will be held from 1-7 October under the theme “Mosque, Religious Officials and Devotion”.

According to the statement of the Presidency of Religious Affairs, the week will be opened at the Edirne Selimiye Mosque by the Head of Religious Affairs Ali Erbaşh.

As part of the opening activities before Friday prayers, a “birthday of sincerity” will be read at the Selimiye Mosque.

It is dedicated to the souls of deceased clergy and benefactors who supported the construction of the mosque and the mosque community.

After that, the symposium “Mosques of Edirne and Selimiye” will be held at the Balkan Conference Center of Edirne University of Trakya at 16.00, and in the symposium consisting of four sessions, 20 speakers will present 16 papers.

Throughout the week, the Muftis of Turkey’s provinces and territories will organize conferences, television programs, broadcasts from digital channels, and programs consisting of Quran recitations.

Details about the Week of Mosques and religious officials can be found on the website “http://camilerhaftasi.diyanet.gov.tr“.

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Lightning struck the minaret of the Karojnik Mosque in the Rashadiya district of Tokat, and with the effect of the lightning, the cone of the minaret caught fire.

Lightning struck the minaret of the Karojnik Mosque located in the town of Simetki in the Rashadiya district in the evening hours, and with the lightning, the cone of the minaret began to burn.

Those who observed the accident informed the firefighters, and as a result of the firefighters’ intervention in the Rashadiya municipality, the fire was extinguished and the minaret cone was damaged.

The moment of the shooting in the minaret was also captured by the people around the cell phone camera.

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The 568th anniversary of the occupation of Istanbul was celebrated through special visual events held in famous places in the city.

The Communications Directorate organized an event in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism on the occasion of the anniversary of the invasion of Istanbul, which changed the course of history.

A special show commemorating the 568th anniversary of the conquest of Istanbul

Activities that began with Quran recitation continued at the Great Hagia Sophia Mosque with a demonstration conducted using light and video mapping technology in the Galata Tower.

The display featured the image of the conqueror, Sultan Mehmed Han, on horseback, who conquered Istanbul at the age of 21, opened and sealed the era, and transformed the Ottoman Empire into a global empire.

In the celebration, where information about the conquest was also expressed, images of the conquest were reflected in the sky of Hagia Sophia, the symbol of the conquest.

And using the video sky mapping method, which was applied for the first time in Turkey.

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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, “We show that we have protected the heritage of the ancestors by opening the Hagia Sophia for worship last year, putting the Great Camlica Mosque into service the previous year and holding the first Friday in the Taksim Mosque yesterday.”

President Erdogan sent a video message to the Ninth International Conquest Cup Program of the Archers Foundation.

Erdogan said: “My dear nation, dear children of Istanbul, our esteemed athletes, our dear guests, who met in Ok Maidani on the occasion of the Ninth International Conquest Cup.

I greet you all with my heartfelt feelings and loyalty, “and I hope that the 568th anniversary of the Istanbul conquest will be useful.

Erdogan said, expressing his gratitude to every member of the blessed army, especially the conqueror Sultan Mehmed Han, who conquered Istanbul and made it the Eternal City of the nation.

“I congratulate all our martyrs, veterans and heroes who sacrificed their lives without blinking for this land to be our home for a thousand years.

I wish the best of luck to our 200 athletes who came from more than 30 countries, especially in Turkey, and participated in the Archery Cup competitions.

I would like to express my special thanks to our archers who brought the spirit of conquest to the present with their arrows saying “Hey Hack”.

“We protect trust by developing and beautifying our Istanbul”

Expressing that the competition is not just a sports competition, Erdogan said, it is a cultural festival in which the meaning of the great turning point that opened and closed the ages is transmitted from generation to generation.

“Although we cannot realize this with the enthusiasm we desire due to the epidemiological conditions, I believe that the excitement of the conquest embodied in the Cup of Fath surrounded the hearts of all our youth, and we show that we protect the ancestral heritage by performing the first Friday.”

With its streets and bridges, Marmaray and the Eurasia tunnel, metro and parks, and most of all, we protect our confidence by developing and beautifying Istanbul through our many services that we provide directly to our people.

In this context, we admire the activities carried out within the Okçular Foundation, which is the First Fatih Foundation in Istanbul.

Which aims to keep the memory of our ancestors and our ancient traditions alive and to bring our youth together with sports. “

“We are building a great and strong Turkey step by step with our youth”

President Erdogan said, noting that the youth inside the institution are proud of their successful work starting from Malazhert to Istanbul, and from there to events abroad.

“We, with our youth, express the courage of Alp Arslan in Malazgirt, Osman’s dream, Gazi in Sogut, Fatih in Istanbul.

“We are building a great and strong Turkey step by step by living the revolution of the Turkish Republic, the power of Gazi Mustafa Kemal in Ankara, and the will to protect its independence on July 15th.

And these young people are the ones who will raise our civilization that we installed on these lands. We made it our home by watering them with our blood and sweat and bringing it to the top.

Today, we are repeating the saga we wrote with archers yesterday with our unmanned aerial vehicles, our programs, our production and our exports.”

President Erdogan said that they implemented all of this, taking into account the importance that grandparents attach to archery and shooting that they attribute to it, and President Erdogan concluded his speech as follows:

“The inability to enter Okemedani without ablution, and the fact that the competitions must start with Basmalah and the ability to use stocks in the exams.

Observance of morals and personality also shows us the way we should follow today.

A tree that has lost its roots cannot survive, and a society that has lost its ties to the roots of its faith and culture cannot survive for long.

We expect our young people to practice sports and traditional arts such as archery, horse riding, sword, calligraphy, lighting, and all kinds of social and cultural activities today with this understanding.

We look to our future with more confidence as we see our young people thinking mentally, feeling their heart and building with taste.

With these feelings, I hope the ninth International Conquest Cup will succeed, I would like to express my gratitude to all of our young people who have taken care of our traditional sports branches in your presence.

I congratulate from the bottom of my heart all the athletes from all over the world who are participating in the Conquest Cup. Once again, I greet you all with affectionate respect.”

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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wished Taksim Mosque to be useful.

President Erdogan said in a post on his Twitter account: “I hope that our mosque in which we perform the first Friday prayers today will be a good way for Istanbul, our country and the world of Islam that will not be absent.”

In Erdogan’s message, the photo, which was published with the title “Our nation has reached its 150-year-old dream today,” included special information about the mosque.

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The head of the Turkish Religious Affairs Presidency, Ali Arbash, announced today, Monday, the suspension of the group’s prayers in the country’s mosques, in light of the measures taken to limit the spread of the Coronavirus.

Arbash said in a press conference in the capital, Ankara, that the Religious Affairs Presidency decided to stop the group’s prayers in mosques, including Friday prayers.

He added that the mosques will be open to anyone who wants to perform his prayers individually.

Regarding the minor pilgrims returning to the country from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Arbash said: “All the Turkish pilgrims within the cohorts of the Presidency of Religious Affairs have returned to the country.”

He added: “390 pilgrims will return to the country today through private companies and will be subject to quarantine.”

It is noteworthy that the Turkish Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca announced yesterday that the number of Coronavirus infections has risen to 18.

Among the measures taken by Turkey to reduce the spread of the Coronavirus, the suspension of schools for two weeks, universities for three weeks, as well as the temporary closure of clubs, nightclubs, bars and discotheques, and the suspension of trips to 9 European countries.

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