Historic Orthodox Church Becomes Public Library in Adana, Turkey

Historic Orthodox Church Becomes Public Library in Adana, Turkey

The Agios Nikolaos Church has been turned into a library. Credit: Seyhan668 , CC BY-SA 4.0/Wikipedia The Agios Nikolaos Church, also known as the Adana Greek Orthodox Church, has been transformed into a public library, in the latest twist of its nearly two-century-long history. Originally built in 1845 by the local Greek Orthodox community following the 1839 Tanzimat Edict, which granted non-Muslims in the Ottoman Empire the right to establish p…