It was just a few months after Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of the constitutionally secular Republic of Turkey, decreed that Hagia Sophia would be turned into a museum. A Turkish court ...

It’s Sofia with a Flat. Sofia Franklyn gave Page ... I don’t know all the lingo. I don’t do interior design for work; I just do it as a hobby, and I just happen to be that good,” she ...

Interior of Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque (Ayasofya-i Kebir Cami-i Şerifi), Istanbul Turkey getty Ask any tourist traveling to Istanbul for the first time what is number one on their must-visit list ...

mosaic-covered interior. When Justinian ordered the Hagia Sophia’s construction, Byzantium had officially separated from Rome to form its own, independent empire. As Constantinople broke with ...