Hagia Sophia was converted into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest in 1453. In 1934 it became a museum and is now a Unesco World Heritage site. Islamists in Turkey long called for it to be ...

No trip to Turkey is complete without entering the many magical mosques of the country, but don't go making any social gaffs ...

Turkey's Hagia Sophia will open to visitors ... “There is no obstacle from a religious perspective to Hagia Sophia Mosque being open to visitors outside prayer times,” the statement added.

A massive march involving hundreds of thousands of people took place on the first day of 2025 in Istanbul in solidarity with ...

Hagia Sophia will reveal its underground treasures as the Turkish Ministry of Culture undertakes a major cleaning and ...

While Hagia Sophia, a microcosm of the city’s history ... Fadıllıoğlu - reportedly the first woman to design a mosque in modern Turkey. The light-flooded interior features a futuristic ...

Sultan Ahmed I was determined to build a mosque that rivaled the nearby Hagia Sophia, and most would agree that he accomplished this task or, at least, came close. Since the early 1600s ...

The Hagia Sophia, which was first built as a church more than ... According to the Middle East Monitor, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey, called the Blue Mosque “one of the most important ...

Japan's Crown Prince Akishino, center, his wife Crown Princess Kiko and Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, left, leave Byzantine-era Hagia Sophia mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, on ...

Hagia Sophia was converted into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest in 1453. In 1934 it became a museum and is now a Unesco World Heritage site. Islamists in Turkey long called for it to be ...