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

The Hagia Sophia, originally built as a church in the sixth century, is an architectural site that reflects the various religious changes the Mediterranean region faced over the years.

Bigger and better. The current Hagia Sophia was built in the 6th century when Constantinople — as Istanbul was then called — was the heart of the Orthodox Christian Byzantine Empire that ...

Turkey has begun a new phase in sweeping restorations of the nearly 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, focusing on preserving the monument’s historic domes from the threat of earthquakes.

Using baffling reasoning, the court held that Constantinople’s conquest enshrined Mehmed’s “right” of ownership over Hagia Sophia and this was proof that it should be and always was a mosque.

Besides all the preservation efforts over the years, it’s said that the Turks came close to completely leveling Hagia Sophia. During the 1918-1922 occupation of Istanbul by the British ...

Hagia Sophia was built as a church over a Roman temple, and was subsequently converted into a mosque and then a museum. Since 2020 it is used as a mosque once more. Yasin Akgul/AFP/Getty Images ...

Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) — Whether you’re a believer or not, visiting Hagia Sophia is a spiritual experience.The architectural genius of this place of worship — which was built as a church in ...