Tourists flock en masse to the Hagia Sophia for its stunning architecture, glorious interior views and historical ... It then served as a mosque from 1453 until 1935, before becoming a secular ...

Four acres of golden glass cubes—millions of them—studded the interior to form a glittering ... demand the reconsecration of Hagia Sophia as a mosque, a position once espoused by Turkey's ...

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

Hagia Sophia will become an Islamic place of worship once again. On Friday, a Turkish court ruled that the iconic religious monument can be restored as a mosque after nearly nine decades of it ...

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 ...

After being used as an interfaith museum from 1935, Hagia Sophia was controversially reclassified as a practicing mosque in ...

Pope Francis on Sunday joined an international chorus of condemnation of Turkey's decision to convert Istanbul's iconic Hagia Sophia landmark back into a mosque. “I think of Hagia Sophia ...

Sultan Ahmed I was determined to build a mosque that rivaled the nearby Hagia Sophia, and most would agree that he accomplished this task or, at least, came close. Since the early 1600s ...