Buzzwords are back to Cookie Jam. This weekend we can learn something about geography. So, let’s answer „Hagia Sophia, Grand ...

The Greek Orthodox Church of the Pantocrator in Patras, Greece, stands out for having been modeled after Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.

The Blue Mosque took its architectural inspiration from the neighboring Hagia Sophia, which the Ottomans had converted ... Byzantinesque mosaics decorate the walls and the chandelier was designed to ...

To suggest to the world not only Islam’s superiority but also that the Ottomans were the true heirs of the Romans, Mehmed converted Hagia Sophia to a mosque — but kept its original name.

However, it was not until the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453, that Mehmed II converted it into a mosque. He and his successors added minarets, Islamic inscriptions, a minbar and ...

It became a stunning museum in the 1930s until recently becoming a mosque again. A short walk from Hagia Sophia is the Basilica Cistern ... at a tremendous monetary cost. A huge crystal chandelier ...

The mosque is a visual marvel, with 1,096 pillars, 82 shining white domes, and chandeliers made of Swarovski crystal ... and is embellished with stones like jasper and amethyst. 3. Hagia Sophia Mosque ...

Istanbul's Hagia Sophia is a world-renowned attraction, and rightly so. Incredibly beautiful and filled with dazzling chandeliers, the former church-turned-mosque is also a Unesco World Heritage Site.

But it is now the latest structure to be converted back into a mosque by the government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, following the conversion of Hagia Sophia in 2020. While viewed as a triumph by ...

While Four Seasons has two outposts in Istanbul, there’s nothing quite like its first hotel in the city, which opened in 1996 in the heart of the historic Sultanahmet district: mere steps away from ...