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Hagia Sophia (Turkish: Ayasofya; Ancient Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, romanized: Hagía Sophía; Latin: Sancta Sapientia; lit. ' Holy Wisdom '), officially the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque,(Turkish: Ayasofya-i Kebir Cami-i Şerifi; Greek: Μεγάλο Τζαμί της Αγίας Σοφίας), is a mosque and former church serving as a major cultural and historical site in Istanbul, Turkey.
Hagia Sophia (Greek: Αγία Σοφία, meaning 'the Holy Wisdom'; Turkish: Ayasofya) is a formerly Greek Orthodox church that was converted into a mosque following the conquest of Trabzon by Mehmed II in 1461. It is located in Trabzon, northeastern Turkey. It was converted into a museum in 1964 [1] and back into a mosque in 2013. [2]
Byzantine mosaic showing Jesus Christ, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul. Arabic فسيفساء بيزنطية تظهر السيد المسيح، آيا صوفيا، إسطنبول.
The Hagia Sophia (Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, Holy Wisdom) is a church located in Thessaloniki, Greece. With its current structure dating from the 7th century, it is one of the oldest churches in the city still standing today.
Hagia Sophia: 7,960 [citation needed] 255,800 [39] 532–537 Istanbul Turkey: Eastern Orthodox Byzantine church constructed in 537; converted to a mosque. San Petronio Basilica: 7,920 [citation needed] 258,000 28,000 1390–1479 Bologna Italy: Catholic Cologne Cathedral: 7,914 [citation needed] 407,000 [40] 1248–1880 Cologne Germany: Catholic
The last of three church buildings to be successively erected on the site by the Eastern Roman Empire, it was completed in 537 AD. It was an Orthodox church until the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453, then a mosque until 1935, then a museum and then from 2020 a mosque again, as well as being a Roman Catholic cathedral for some decades ...
Name City Country Age Notes Hagia Sophia: Constantinople (): Turkey: 6th c. Turned into a mosque after 1453, was a museum and now it is reverting to a mosque.
Hagia Sophia was built in the fourteenth century by the first despot of Mystras, Manuel Kantakouzenos, whose monograms are preserved on marble plaques of the church. [1] [2] The church was originally dedicated to Jesus Christ the Life Giver (Ancient Greek: Ζωοδότης Χριστός, romanized: Zoodotes Christos) [2] and was the catholicon of the men's monastery, bearing the same name, as ...