From tiled palaces to centuries-old markets, art galleries and colorful neighborhoods, here's a must-visit guide to Türkiye's ...

Tourists flock en masse to the Hagia Sophia for its stunning architecture, glorious interior views and historical ...

In 2011, for example, the Hagia Sophia in Iznik (Nicaea) – a museum since the 1970s – was reopened as the Ayasofya mosque. Next was the Hagia Sophia mosque in Trabzon, which was transferred to the ...

The Hagia Sophia, originally built as a church in the sixth century, is an architectural site that reflects the various religious changes the Mediterranean region faced over the years.

It's also one of the biggest tourist draws in Istanbul. Sultan Ahmed I was determined to build a mosque that rivaled the ...

Turkish President Erdoğan ordered Aug. 21 that Chora Church, a much-visited site in the Fatih district of Istanbul, be turned into a mosque and opened for Muslim worship.

Despite stirring up a fuss with the secularists and irate voices in Greece at the time, he had reason to be confident, given the abolition of the museum status of the Hagia Sophia in both İznik ...

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 ...

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 ...

Turkey is set to begin restoration and reinforcement work on the dome of the Hagia Sophia, in one of the biggest repair projects carried out on the 1,486-year-old structure, experts said on Monday ...

He stresses that the conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque was less a religious matter than a "national (istic) affectivity". The building has not been a Christian church for more than 550 years.