A woman wrapped in a Turkish national flag gestures outside the Hagia Sophia museum ... museum in Istanbul - originally founded as a cathedral - has been turned back into a mosque.

Hidden beneath the historic halls of Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia is a mysterious network of tunnels, corridors, and tombs. These ...

Reuters Built almost 1,500 years ago, Hagia Sophia was converted into a mosque in 1453 Pope Francis responded by saying that his "thoughts go to Istanbul", adding: "I think of Santa Sophia and I ...

Hagia Sophia remains the symbolic center of Greek Orthodoxy even centuries after its fall to the Ottomans and conversion to a ...

Istanbul, a cacophonous metropolis that straddles East and West, is home to more than 3,000 mosques. One of these, Hagia Sophia, is the city’s star attraction. It began life as a Christian ...

Tourists flock en masse to the Hagia Sophia for its stunning ... It's located between the Blue Mosque and the Topkapi Palace Museum. Best of Istanbul: 1, 2 or 3-Day Private Guided Istanbul Tour ...

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Hagia Sophia will reveal its underground treasures as the Turkish Ministry of Culture undertakes a major cleaning and ...

ISTANBUL, Dec 23 (KNA) -- Hagia Sophia mosque is a world-level historic and cultural landmark symbolizing a historic period stretching for more than 1,500 years since its construction as a ...

Sultan Ahmed I was determined to build a mosque that rivaled the nearby Hagia Sophia, and most would agree ... It's also one of the biggest tourist draws in Istanbul. Visitors say this mosque ...

Its words: In addition to their renowned patronage of architecture, which yielded the conversion of the Church of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul into a congregational mosque, Ottoman sultans and elites ...