Some of the oldest ancient temples continue to fulfil their original purpose after thousands of years, continuing their ...

It s hard to imagine Christianity without the Nicene Creed Seventeen hundred years ago, what became the defining statement of ...

The museum's digital experience rooms use cutting-edge technology to immerse visitors in the history of Hagia Sophia and ...

Hagia Sophia reinstated as a mosque in 2020 The ... For the subsequent 900 years, it functioned as the most prominent Christian cathedral in the world. The temple was converted into a mosque ...

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.

This is extremely worrying. To be sure, the Hagia Sophia, the most glorious Christian house of worship in the world (with the possible exception of the Chartres cathedral) was a mosque since the ...

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Completed in 537 CE, Hagia Sophia was the religious and cultural center of the Byzantine Empire and, for a time, the largest Christian cathedral in the world. With its innovative pendentive dome ...

Once the largest Christian church for over a thousand years, Hagia Sophia was built under the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I. Over time, it has served as a Greek Orthodox cathedral, a Roman ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...