Authorities in Turkey have sealed off a luxury spa set up by illegally modifying a 1,500-year-old cistern near Hagia Sophia ...

The Hagia Sophia is a super famous building in Istanbul. Officially, at least according to the Turkish government, it is a ...

Following the protests, the General Directorate of Cultural Assets and Museums filed a complaint against the responsible persons ...

The Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque—Istanbul’s iconic ... Christian and Islamic architecture for centuries. After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Ottoman Empire established control over ...

Hagia Sophia happens to be one of the oldest, largest, most beautiful, most celebrated, and most important churches of all Christendom. Built in the 530s in Constantinople, the capital of the ...

John Julius Norwich tells the dramatic story of the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine ... Greek Orthodox Christianity from within the Hagia Sophia. Norwich describes the calamitous scenes ...

Turkey's Hagia Sophia will open to visitors outside prayer times and its Christian icons will remain, religious officials said on Tuesday, after a court ruling paved the way for it to become a mosque.

Marcus worked on a new, more detailed model of the Hagia Sophia, Winnie worked with the Kariye Camii (Christ in Chora), Erik began modeling the topography of the city, and Jamie worked on the land and ...