Dr. Hasan Fırat Diker, of the Hagia Sophia Science Council, said they’ve studied Hagia Sophia’s underground structures for ...

After fifteen centuries, Hagia Sophia's maze-like, underground complex world will be open to visitors, Yeni Safak reports ...

Hagia Sophia remains the symbolic center of Greek Orthodoxy even centuries after its fall to the Ottomans and conversion to a ...

Hagia Sophia's complex history began almost 1,500 years ago ... it was turned into a museum in 1934 in a drive to make Turkey more secular. It has since become one of its most popular tourist ...

A woman wrapped in a Turkish national flag gestures outside the Hagia Sophia museum The world-famous Hagia Sophia museum in Istanbul - originally founded as a cathedral - has been turned back into ...

ISTANBUL, Dec 23 (KNA) -- Hagia Sophia mosque is a world-level historic and cultural landmark symbolizing a historic period stretching for more than 1,400 years since its construction as a cathedral ...

Hagia Sophia happens to be one of ... Recalling this violent and dismal history as I wandered the Cummer, I wondered why a Florida museum would celebrate the vicious transformation of this ...

ISTANBUL, Dec 23 (KNA) -- Hagia Sophia mosque is a world-level historic ... but later was transformed into a mosque, later a museum and recently declared as a mosque. Construction work had begun ...

Converting the Hagia Sophia from a museum into a mosque has been always causing chaos and discussions online and the latest was by the US senator who asked Turkey to return it back. He should ...

The Hagia Sophia is a super famous building in Istanbul. Officially, at least according to the Turkish government, it is a museum. But it was originally built as a church and then was converted ...

It then served as a mosque from 1453 until 1935, before becoming a secular museum ... history of the site. There are some important things to keep in mind before you visit. First, the Hagia Sophia ...