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 ...

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

A Monument to Wisdom: Agia Sophia. The name Sophia also lives in one of history’s architectural marvels: the Hagia Sophia, or Agia Sophia in Greek. Built in 537 AD in Constantinople (now Istanbul) ...

A Cyprus’ and a Greek flags, are seen on the pols in the south, as in the background are seen the minarets of the Selimiye mosque, or Cathedral of St Sophia, or Agia Sofia, in the Turkish occupied ...

The Agia Sophia built 537 AD as the citadel of eastern Orthodoxy in the Byzantine Epoch. Converted into a mosque from 1453 by the Ottoman rulers, then secular museum in Republican Turkey, now a ...

View The iron screw barque Agia Sophiain the Bosphorus having just cleared Constantinople, with the celebrated Hagia Sophia mosque after which she was named on the receding shore by Samuel Walters on ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — Muslim worshippers at the mosque on Friday said they viewed Chora Church's rededication as an Islamic site to be a national win for Turkey.

That's certainly the case with Hagia Sophia, which existed as a church for 916 years before it was converted into a mosque following the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453. The building ...

Construction of the mosque started in 1609 when Sultan Ahmet I decided to build a huge mosque which would be better than the Hagia Sophia. He appointed his royal architect Sedefhar Mehmet Aga to ...

The Hagia Sophia was officially reclassified as a mosque in 2020 and has remained as a mosque to this day. Muslims were seen performing noon prayer in front of the Hagia Sophia on Aug. 8, 2020.