The Hagia Sophia is at the centre of Turkey's Byzantine, Ottoman and secular history. How did the sixth-century cathedral ...

What visiting this UNESCO World Heritage Site tells us about faith, politics, and power, Destinations News - Times Now ...

Turkey's Hagia Sophia will open to visitors outside prayer times and its Christian icons will remain, religious officials said on Tuesday, after a court ruling paved the way for it to become a mosque.

The basillica and its storied mosaics constitute a matchless and threatened treasure. Architectural historian Dan Cruickshank calls it a "sacred mountain of a building, vast and elemental.

The Hagia Sophia is a super famous building in Istanbul. Officially, at least according to the Turkish government, it is a museum. But it was originally built as a church and then was converted ...

Hidden beneath the historic halls of Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia is a mysterious network of tunnels, corridors, and tombs. These ...

Tourists flock en masse to the Hagia Sophia for its stunning architecture, glorious interior views and historical significance. Built between 532 and 537, the building was a church for nearly a ...

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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that for Russians Hagia Sophia is particularly valuable from the spiritual point of view MOSCOW, October 26. /TASS/. Moscow hopes that Ankara will fulfill its ...

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