A large crowd gathered outside Agia Sophia in Constantinople in the morning hours of May 13 to demand its re-conversion into a mosque. May 29 marks 564 years since the famous church was converted into ...

“We saw Agia Sophia, ... In 2005, the Union petitioned the country’s highest administrative court, the Council of State, to return Hagia Sophia back to its standing as a mosque.

President Erdoğan of Turkey has announced that he will read Muslim prayers in Agia Sophia in Constantinople on April 14, Holy Friday, ... Under the Ottomans it was converted into a mosque until 1931, ...

The Hagia Sophia was officially reclassified as a mosque in 2020 and has remained as a mosque to this day. Muslims were seen performing noon prayer in front of the Hagia Sophia on Aug. 8, 2020.

H agia Sophia’s changed status from a museum to a mosque has stirred up quite an acrimonious debate all around the globe. Before going into detail about the criticisms and condemnation that ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday he condemned 'in the most intense manner' a decision by Turkey to convert Istanbul's Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque.

But it is now the latest structure to be converted back into a mosque by the government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, following the conversion of Hagia Sophia in 2020.

Besides being a functioning mosque, Hagia Sophia is also among Turkey’s top tourism destinations for domestic and foreign visitors alike. In 1985, during its time as a museum, Hagia Sophia was ...

Construction of the mosque started in 1609 when Sultan Ahmet I decided to build a huge mosque which would be better than the Hagia Sophia. He appointed his royal architect Sedefhar Mehmet Aga to ...