Talk:Seven Saints Church, Sofia

A fact from Seven Saints Church, Sofia appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 June 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Sveti Sedmochislenitsi Church (pictured) in Sofia, Bulgaria is in fact a reorganized Ottoman mosque, itself built on the site of an Early Christian temple?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/June.

Wikipedia

"Reorganized"?

What exactly does it mean that this was a "reorganized" mosque? That's not exactly idiomatic English. --Jfruh (talk) 19:23, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I'm not a native speaker so such mistakes may occur, you know. What way to name the act of making a mosque a church would sound natural in English? Convert, reshape? Reorganize sounded a bit weird to me too, since I used a dictionary to find the equivalent of a Bulgarian word, but could come up with no better 'solution' than that, unfortunately. Todor →Bozhinov 19:41, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I would say "converted" is the word you're looking for. I would have made the change but when I was looking at the article a vandal had blanked most of the text, so there wasn't much context for me to figure out what was happening. I'll tweak it now.

Sorry, I didn't mean to criticize a non-native speaker's contribution! I wish my language skills were good enough to contribute to other Wikipedias... --Jfruh (talk) 19:45, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

PS I also changed "built" to "created". Since the building already existed, it's hard to say that it was "built" during this time. However, the building as a church was created by the conversion process. --Jfruh (talk) 19:46, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, it sounds better now :) Don't worry about the criticism, I'm always open to it and it really helps me improve my language skills! Todor →Bozhinov 19:51, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"ABONDED"? Mosque?

After Sofia left Turkish rule, the Black Mosque was used by the Bulgarians as a warehouse and arsenal for a while. By 1903, the completely converted into a church of named "Sveti Sedmoçislenitsi".

The madrasa building is used as a prison for a short time.

You can't massacre history here, Here is not propaganda agency for etnic cleansing. The lies of this place was built on ruins, are false and I corrected the article, be neutral, this is an encyclopedia. Cengizsogutlu (talk) 13:22, 2 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]