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Speaking of tolerance...wasn't St. Sophia, the Orthodox church in Constantinople made into a mosque. Is that what you mean by tolerance?
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This has been a common practice throughout human history among all peoples. The Turks don't really stand out in this regard.
It has been largely unchanged over the past six centuries. The major alterations have been the construction of four minarets around it, and the plastering over of Christian paintings which actually did much to preserve them. So thanks to the Turks it has stood today as it did for nine centuries before the conquest of Constantinople. It would have otherwise likely collapsed a hundred years later.