The historic Armenian Cathedral of Ani is undergoing restoration in Turkey, but it will not reopen as a place of Christian ...

Walking around the small, pedestrian-only island allows you to step back in time and discover the essence of Turkey through ...

Controversial transgender activist and Trump ally, Sophia Hutchins, has died at the age of 29, following an ATV accident.

Restoration work continues at the Fethiye Mosque (formerly the Ani Cathedral), the first conquest mosque in Anatolia, where ...

While the world watched Istanbul’s historic Hagia Sophia undergo its most dramatic transformation in decades during July 2020 ...

ISTANBUL, June 27. /TASS/. Turkish historian and professor Ilber Ortayli has called for restricting tourists and worshippers' access to Istanbul's Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque (formerly the Church of ...

Byzantine-Hellenistic Icon Faces Quake Risk Hagia Sophia, a Byzantine marvel with Hellenistic roots, undergoes restoration to withstand Istanbul’s quake risks, preserving its cathedral-mosque legacy.

The sheer scale of the attacks forces Christians into hiding, with many facing imprisonment, violence or death for their faith ...

The current Hagia Sophia was built in the 6th century when Constantinople — as Istanbul was then called — was the heart of the Orthodox Christian Byzantine Empire that emerged as Ancient Rome ...