Agia Sophia, the daunting 1,480-year-old cathedral where emperors were crowned, was converted into an imperial mosque. It served as the jewel of Ottoman rule for five centuries and still stands in ...

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

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

Turkey is located near two fault lines, leaving the 1,500-year-old structure vulnerable to damage. Architects and engineers will be investigating how to best preserve it ...

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

This is a delightful neighbourhood on a more human scale than the rest of the city, thanks to wandering alleys and jammed bazaars. Its Grand Mosque, founded in AD742 (current architecture dates to ...

Facing the Hagia Sophia across an attractive park, the Blue Mosque is every westerner’s idea of what a mosque looks like. Built in 1609, from the outside it is all domes and half-domes, framed ...

I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges Voltaire Voltaire wasn t far from the truth when he made this remark about Indic wisdom becoming accessible through the ...

When the Ottomans captured the city in 1453, they turned Hagia Sophia into a mosque. And thus it would remain until it was closed in 1931 and then made into a museum.

Constantine, from whom Constantinople derives its name, with his wife and empress, Flavia Maxima Fausta Augusta – between them is Jesus Christ – the Pantocrator (11th century), Agia Sofia ...

The president of Turkey on Friday formally converted Istanbul’s sixth-century Hagia Sophia back into a mosque and declared it open for Muslim worship, hours after a high court annulled a 1934 decision ...

Curtains cover Christian frescoes inside Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque during the afternoon prayer in Istanbul, Turkey, July 26, 2020. [Photo/Agencies] Thousands of faithful made their way into Istanbul's ...