Turkey has created a digital twin of Hagia Sophia, in order to rebuild it if it gets destroyed by a catastrophic earthquake ...

In a divided world, sacred spaces like Al Aqsa and Babri Masjid, which have raised nationalistic fervour, should have endured ...

The head of Russia’s Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill said he was “deeply concerned” by the moves, describing Hagia Sophia as “one of the greatest monuments of Christian culture.” ...

Hagia Sophia is the former Greek Orthodox Christian patriarchal cathedral built in AD 532-537 in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey). It was turned into an Ottoman imperial mosque in 1453 ...

it was designed by APA Markowski Architekci and was directly inspired by the contours of one of the world’s most-recognisable buildings – the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. The Warsaw church is topped off ...

“I think of Hagia Sophia, and I am very saddened,” Pope ... Bishop Hilarion, who heads the Russian Orthodox Church's department for external church relations, described it as “a blow to ...

Hagia Sophia was a cathedral for nearly 1,000 years before being converted into a mosque in 1453 and a museum in 1935. Diyanet said in a statement on Tuesday that the Christian icons in Hagia ...

Tourists flock en masse to the Hagia Sophia for its stunning architecture, glorious interior views and historical significance. Built between 532 and 537, the building was a church for nearly a ...

Diker noted that a large part of the underground structures of Hagia Sophia is as old as the church itself, with some sections contemporary to the temple, which was constructed from 532 to 537 ...

As the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the “Days of Slavic Culture”, which yearly ... Cyril (actually known as Constantine until shortly before his death when he was tonsured a monk) was librarian ...

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Such a sight will not leave anyone indifferent. Hagia Sophia is a former Patriarchal Orthodox Cathedral built in 537. For more than 86 years it was a museum and only in 2020 it became a mosque again.