“There is no obstacle from a religious perspective to Hagia Sophia Mosque being open to visitors ... has been the scene of Islam-linked activities in recent years. In 2018, President Recep ...

A tourist faced unexpected harassment at Hagia Sophia—what happened at Turkey’s iconic site that’s causing international ...

The Ottoman-era tradition of mahya, an illumination art dating back to the 16th century, returned to Istanbul on Tuesday as ...

The transformation of the Greek Hagia Sophia Cathedral into the Turkish Ayasofya Mosque did not take place ... War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West].

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Sitting on the shoreline of the Atlantic Ocean, the mosque overlooks the sea majestically. Hagia Sophia is a major historical ...

Observant Muslims worldwide will soon be united in a ritual of daily fasting from dawn to sunset as the Islamic holy month of ...

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In 2020, the building once again became a working mosque. Once the biggest cathedral in the world, the Hagia Sophia is considered the magnum opus of Byzantine architecture. Visitors say it is a ...

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 ...

Three friends from Spain are reviving a 500-year-old Andalusian Muslim tradition by traveling on horseback to Mecca for Hajj ...