Built as a church and repurposed during its 1,500‑year history as a mosque, a museum and now a mosque once more, the Hagia ...

The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul is about to get a makeover. In light of recent earthquakes in Turkey, experts fear the 1,500-year-old mosque is structurally vulnerable, and the Turkish government has ...

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 emerged as Ancient Rome ...

Archaeology & History The Many Lives of Istanbul’s 1,500-Year-Old Architectural Icon Throughout its centuries-long existence, the Hagia Sophia has been a place of worship for different religions.

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.

People pray inside the Byzantine-era Hagia Sophia, with sail-like drapes, top, covering mosaics, following the inaugural Friday prayers, in the historic Sultanahmet district of Istanbul, Friday ...

Turkey has begun a new phase in 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.