{"id":1956,"date":"2012-01-06T14:18:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T14:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=1956"},"modified":"2012-01-06T14:18:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T14:18:33","slug":"friday-sermons-in-turkey-to-be-translated-into-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2012\/01\/06\/1956\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday sermons in Turkey to be translated into English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news1\/khutbe_turkey.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/>Religious Affairs Directorate President Mehmet G\u00f6rmez has said his directorate plans to get the Friday sermons delivered at historical \u0130stanbul mosques translated into English since the mosques are visited by thousands of tourists every day.  <!--more-->  <br \/>Speaking to reporters at the office of \u0130stanbul Governor H\u00fcseyin Avni Mutlu on Wednesday, G\u00f6rmez said \u0130stanbul mosques and sanctuaries are visited by more than 20,000 tourists every day, and the religious authority plans to get summaries of the sermons translated into English to make sure tourists can understand what is being said.<br \/>\u201cDuring Friday prayers, at least 500 tourists visit the Sultanahmet Mosque [Blue Mosque]. The Friday sermons are translated into German at various mosques in Germany. You will see a similar service here in \u0130stanbul,\u201d he said.<br \/>\u201cWe [the directorate] think it is important that tourists know what is being said in Turkey,\u201d he added. Meanwhile, the Religious Affairs Directorate will hire 250 tour guides for mosques. G\u00f6rmez said the guides will take an exam in which their knowledge of religion will be tested.<br \/><em><br \/>Source: World Bulletin<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religious Affairs Directorate President Mehmet G\u00f6rmez has said his directorate plans to get the Friday sermons delivered at historical \u0130stanbul mosques translated into English since the mosques are visited by thousands of tourists every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Friday sermons in Turkey to be translated into English - SunniOnline<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2012\/01\/06\/1956\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Friday sermons in Turkey to be translated into English - 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