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Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey, ca. 1897. The first church on the site was known as the Magna Ecclesia (Μεγάλη Ἐκκλησία, Megálē Ekklēsíā, 'Great Church') [20] [21] because of its size compared to the sizes of the contemporary churches in the city. [10]
However, these 21st century building codes were not very well enforced. [13] In a bid to shore up support going into the 2018 Turkish presidential election, the government offered amnesties for violations of the building code, allowing non-compliance to continue with the payment of a fee. [25]
Hagia Sophia: Constantinople : Turkey: 6th c. Turned into a mosque after 1453, was a museum and now it is reverting to a mosque. Little Hagia Sophia: Constantinople : Turkey: 6th c. The Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey), now a mosque. Hagia Sophia, Edessa: Edessa Turkey: 6th c. Hagia Sophia, Iznik
Little Hagia Sophia, in Istanbul, Turkey, a former church converted into a mosque. Hagia Sophia, İznik, Turkey, first a church, then a mosque, then a museum, now again a mosque. Selimiye Mosque, Nicosia, North Cyprus, first a church, now a Mosque. Saint Sophia Church, Sofia, Bulgaria, first a church, then a mosque, now again a church.
Church of St. Polyeuctus remains. The Church of St. Polyeuctus (Ancient Greek: Ἅγιος Πολύευκτος, romanized: Hagios Polyeuktos; Turkish: Ayios Polieuktos Kilisesi) was an ancient Byzantine church in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) built by the noblewoman Anicia Juliana and dedicated to Saint Polyeuctus.
After Hagia Sophia, it is the largest Byzantine religious edifice still standing in Istanbul. [1] It is less than 1 km to the southeast of Eski Imaret Mosque, another Byzantine church that was turned into a mosque. East of the complex is an Ottoman Konak which has been restored and opened as a restaurant and tea garden called Zeyrekhane.
The most severe of these was the Nika riots of 532, in which an estimated 30,000 people were killed [7] and many important buildings were destroyed, such as the nearby second Hagia Sophia, the Byzantine cathedral. The current (third) Hagia Sophia was built by Justinian I following the Nika riots.
[59] [60] On rare occasions, as a mark of honor, the entry through the gate was allowed to non-imperial visitors: papal legates (in 519 and 868) and, in 710, to Pope Constantine. The Gate was used for triumphal entries until the Komnenian period ; thereafter, the only such occasion was the entry of Michael VIII Palaiologos into the city on 15 ...