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

The grant opening of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, the center of Orthodox Christianity for a millennium was held on ...

The Hagia Sophia is a super famous building ... into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453. So what is it? Church, mosque, or museum? Patrick Mahomes's TD Run vs.

In 1453, in a devastating blow to the Byzantines, Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II captured Istanbul (formerly known as Constantinople) and Hagia Sophia - an Orthodox Christian cathedral - was converted ...

The Hagia Sophia served as the home of ... The head of the Eastern Orthodox Church, known as the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, is still based in Istanbul. Patriarch Bartholomew I warned ...

Hagia Sophia was then the largest ecclesiastical ... when Mehmet acquired Constantinople, and the Church with it, a similar endowment followed. This was recorded in, as was the norm, a deed ...

See photos of the unique icons - The mosaics of Monreale, covering an impressive area of 6,400 square meters, contain 2.2 ...

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Hagia Sophia mosque is a world-level historic and cultural landmark symbolizing a historic period stretching for more than 1,500 years since its construction as a cathedral in the sixth century.

Built in the 530s in Constantinople ... The transformation of the Greek Hagia Sophia Cathedral into the Turkish Ayasofya Mosque did not take place gently. Fergus M. Bordewich describes the ...

The Byzantine church Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is dedicated for the second time after being destroyed by earthquakes. 1167: ...