The Parthenon's function as a church, along with the Byzantines' reign, lasted another millennium until the Turkish Ottoman Empire captured Athens in 1458. The new Muslim rulers converted the ...
The 2,500-year-old Parthenon is among the most recognizable ... first as a temple to the Athenians, then as a church to the Byzantines, and eventually to the Ottomans as "the finest mosque in ...