Istanbul is a city that reveals itself on its own terms for travelers who invest the time and energy to unpeel its many ...

Credit: Navitas Spa Sarnic Authorities in Turkey have sealed off a luxury spa that was set up by illegally modifying a 1,500-year-old cistern near Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. The spa, originally an ...

Amanda Tyler didn’t need President Donald Trump to tell her that Christian nationalism was on the rise. She had seen it reshape churches, rewrite textbooks and realign politics. But when Trump ...

Just steps away from the historic Hagia Sophia, a 1,500-year-old cistern—once a crucial part of the city’s water supply system—was illegally converted into a luxury spa center, triggering ...

I rubbed my eyes in disbelief seeing a wall plaque at the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens in Jacksonville ... Ottoman Empire for having turned the Hagia Sophia church into a mosque.