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.

Built by the Romans 1,500 years ago, the Hagia Sophia was the biggest church in the world. No expense was spared: it contained coloured marble from around the Roman Empire and nearly 10,000 square ...

“The sections located under the portico courtyard are as old as Hagia Sophia, meaning they are 1,500 years old,” he conveyed, according to SKAI. He further explained that the current cleaning ...