ADANA The Aya Nikola Church , also known as the Adana Greek Orthodox Church, has been transformed into a public library, ushering in a new chapter in 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 places of worship and education, the church stood as a religious and cultural landmark for decades. After the 1923 population exchange between