Soar over the magnificent Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey, in this awe-inspiring aerial journey. This stunning drone footage ...

The Hagia Sophia is a major historical monument and a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Istanbul, Turkey. The sixth-century architectural masterpiece is famous for reflecting the various religious ...

It was a project close to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's heart - but also one that was met with international criticism. In the summer of 2020, Erdoğan converted Istanbul's Hagia Sophia, ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday formally reconverted Istanbul's sixth-century iconic Hagia Sophia into a mosque and declared it open to Muslim worship, hours after a high court ...

The Hagia Sophia is one of the most astonishing buildings ever constructed, standing at the crossroads of empires, religions, and centuries. Built in the 6th century, it served as the heart of the ...

Ever since the reversion of Hagia Sophia back into a mosque, the Muslim call to prayer has been resounding from its minarets. Originally built as a Christian Orthodox church and serving that purpose ...

Images depicting the Virgin Mary and the archangel Gabriel, which are situated in the direction Muslims face during prayer, will be obscured. Hagia Sophia, recently converted from a museum to a mosque ...

Religious and political leaders are decrying Turkey's decision to make Istanbul's Hagia Sophia, known for its Christian origin and as the secular Muslim nation's most popular tourist site, into a ...

Hagia Sophia, a 6th century CE cathedral which now serves as a museum within the city of Istanbul, Turkey (image by Derzsi Elekes Andor via Wikimedia). A new Baptismal font discovered at the Hagia ...

Two scholars at Stanford have joined forces to recreate what a Christian choir might have sounded like inside Istanbul's Hagia Sophia before it became a mosque in the 1400s. When the Hagia Sophia in ...