Byzantine-Hellenistic Icon Faces Quake Risk Hagia Sophia, a Byzantine marvel with Hellenistic roots, undergoes restoration to ...

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

The cathedral’s architect, Trdat—who later repaired the dome of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople—is also mentioned without ...

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 ...

The decision to reconvert Hagia Sophia sparked criticism in the United States, Greece and other Western countries as well as from Orthodox Christian leaders. They called on Erdogan to maintain it as a ...

Soar over the magnificent Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey, in this awe-inspiring aerial journey. This stunning drone footage ...

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 ...

The Hagia Sophia was built in the sixth century, and its dome – among the first built on pendentives – collapsed in 558, and partially again in 989 and 1346.

Hagia Sophia, with a history of 1,500 years hosting different religions, will now be reconverted from a museum into a mosque. This recent shift after a Turkish court decree has sparked extensive ...

Simon singled out the Hagia Sophia as a delightful highlight, venerating the ancient monument that has seen its share of transformations and remains an impressive edifice over 1,600 years after ...

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