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=====The Ottoman Period====
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With the exception of one Divine Liturgy in 1919 during the British, French, Italian, and Greek occupation of Istanbul after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the building has been a mosque or a museum to this day (2023).[3]
Under the rule of the Islamic Ottoman Empire, Christians were considered essentially respected, but limited in traditional activities.
In this setting, Christian leadership in Constantinople was allowed to carry on administration functions for Eastern Orthodox churches within the Ottoman Empire. The faith was allowed to continue. To make an analogy, it would if an Islamic empire took over Italy, but the pope and the Roman Catholic Church was still allowed to carry on general administration functions for churches within the empire.[4]
