It has been five years since the presidential decree was issued to reopen Hagia Sophia as a mosque, reversing its status as a ...

The Hagia Sophia, a structure that has transcended time and purpose, stands today as a testament to human ambition and ...

George Aslan, Christian MP elected with the Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party, has raised the alarm in a parliamentary ...

A view of the 1486-year-old Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque, undergoing the largest and most comprehensive restoration process in history, in Istanbul, Turkiye on April 14, 2025. ‘Our goal is to ...

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

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

The Hagia Sophia, a cathedral, museum and mosque at different points in time, is now undergoing its most extensive restoration since the founding of the Turkish Republic in 1923.

Experts say the claim that Ani was the site of the first Friday prayer in Anatolia, the basis for plans to convert it into a ...

The historic Armenian Cathedral of Ani, also known as Surp Asdvadzadzin (Holy Mother of God), will be converted into a mosque ...

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

Most of my readers are quite familiar with the great rulers of the Renaissance: Henry VIII and his consecutive marital ...

FacebookLikeShareTweetEmail Türkiye and the wider Muslim world celebrate the fifth anniversary of the reconversion of the ...