It features 82 domes, over 1,000 columns, 24-karat gold chandeliers, and the world's largest ... Sitting on the shoreline of ...

Hagia Sophia was a cathedral for nearly 1,000 years before being converted into a mosque in 1453 and a museum in 1935. Diyanet said in a statement on Tuesday that the Christian icons in Hagia ...

Hagia Sophia will become an Islamic place of worship once again. On Friday, a Turkish court ruled that the iconic religious monument can be restored as a mosque after nearly nine decades of it ...

In 2020, the building once again became a working mosque. Once the biggest cathedral in the world, the Hagia Sophia is considered the magnum opus of Byzantine architecture. Visitors say it is a ...

Pope Francis on Sunday joined an international chorus of condemnation of Turkey's decision to convert Istanbul's iconic Hagia Sophia landmark back into a mosque. “I think of Hagia Sophia ...