According to legend, after the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453, three Venetian ships fled the city filled with various relics to avoid their capture by the Turks, but the third which ...

What visiting this UNESCO World Heritage Site tells us about faith, politics, and power, Destinations News - Times Now ...

The Hagia Sophia is at the centre of Turkey's Byzantine, Ottoman and secular history. How did the sixth-century cathedral ...

"Hagia Sophia summed up everything that was the Orthodox religion," says Roger Crowley, author of 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West. "For Greeks, it ...

The Hagia Sophia is a super famous building in Istanbul ... into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453. So what is it? Church, mosque, or museum? When is daylight saving ...

To be sure, the Hagia Sophia, the most glorious Christian house ... was a mosque since the Islamic conquest of Constantinople in 1453. In 1935, the Kemalist government turned it into a museum.

following the conquest of Constantinople by the Turks in 1453. After the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the conclusion of World War I, the Hagia Sophia's status was changed again, becoming a ...

Tourists flock en masse to the Hagia Sophia for its stunning architecture ... It then served as a mosque from 1453 until 1935, before becoming a secular museum. In 2020, the building once again ...

Hagia Sophia was a cathedral for nearly 1,000 years before being converted into a mosque in 1453 and a museum in 1935. Diyanet said in a statement on Tuesday that the Christian icons in Hagia ...

In 1453, the Hagia Sophia was turned into a mosque after Ottoman Turks conquered the city. Now a museum, it has survived earthquakes, sieges and the rise and fall of empires. Yet Hagia Sophia ...