Properties of Minorities

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*"There are only 34 churches and 18 schools left in Turkey today, 
mostly in Istanbul"
*"Recent research pegs the number of Armenian churches in Turkey before
 1915 at around 2,300. The number of schools before 1915 is estimated at
 nearly 700" and he is adding that; "These numbers are only for churches and schools under the jurisdiction 
of the Istanbul Armenian Patriarchate and the Apostolic Church, and 
therefore do not include the numerous churches and schools belonging to 
the Protestant and Catholic Armenian parishes."
http://www.armenianweekly.com/2011/08/01/searching-for-lost-armenian-churches-and-schools-in-turkey/  (Bedrosyan: Searching for Lost Armenian Churches and Schools in Turkey)

And writer is asking that;
"Where are these lost or stolen Armenian churches in Turkey? How many 
were there before 1915, the turning point in the Armenians’ world, when 
they were uprooted and wiped out from their homeland of more than 3,000 
years? How many churches are there now?"

This attitude makes me crazy. I am wondering that is he making empathy? 

*According to the Caucasus Calendar of 1870, a statistical report published by the Russian Viceroyalty of the Caucasus, there were a total of 269 Shia mosques in the territory of Erivan Governorate, most of which now comprises the Republic of Armenia. (I am not adding sunni mosques)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mosques_in_Armenia

*How many of them do still exist? I could just find one "Blue Mosque, Yerevan"
Simple Maths     Exist Church-Mosque number / Past Number
Armenia:1/269     = 0.0037174 Mosque
Turkey  :34/2300 = 0.0147826 Church       so,  Turkey Wins

*At the end, I am also a real Anatolian like a most of modern Turk. I am have a heritage with medieval Armenian, Byzantine Greeks and People in Gobekli Tepe. That's why, here is also my homeland.

Mosques which were taken from muslim minorities. They are using for different purpose now.  
Athens, Greece
Crete, Greece
 Thessaloniki, Greece
 Nafplio, Greece
 Nafplio, Greece
 Cyprus
 Larissa, Greece
Monemvasia, Greece

Abandoned Mosques
Ioannina, Greece
 Lesvos, Greece
 Lesvos, Greece
 Crimea, Ukraine
 Crimea, Ukraine
Caesarea, Israel
 Tiberias, Israel

Converted Churches from Mosques
Kavala, Greece
 Lesvos, Greece
 Akhaltsikhe, Georgia
 Pecs, Hungary
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Now Turkey

Armenian Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Now museum

 Hagia Irene Church (Greek), Now museum and concert hall

Diyarbakır Armenian Church. After the reconstruction, it is a real church now.

Assyrian Catholic Church in İskenderun/Alexandratte(near Antioch), it was built in 1885 but after 1950 it used as a cinema. Now it returns own minority.

But of course, not each abandoned church can be design a church again. 

İt is a mosque now.

 near Ayvalık
and some of them, probably always stay as abandoned

ALL İS NORMAL

before cry, yell or blame, make emphaty
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there were many Armenian 
churches in Anatolia and also as you can guess,  not all of them have 
been able to survive. 
My point is this; do you think all of them should reconstruct and turn to real a church?

Edited by Centrix Vigilis - 07-Mar-2013 at 09:15