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 story of Constantinople is a fascinating one that dates back millennia to when this mega-city was a small Greek town ...

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

One church is being burned every week in the Muslim world in an "alarming" campaign of Christian persecution, a British charity has warned. More than 85,000 Christians were targeted in the last year ...

Bigger and better. 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 ...

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 ...