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  2. Hagia Sophia - Wikipedia

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    Hagia Sophia, [a] officially the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque, [b] is a mosque and former church serving as a major cultural and historical site in Istanbul, Turkey. The last of three church buildings to be successively erected on the site by the Eastern Roman Empire, it was completed in AD 537.

  3. Conversion of non-Islamic places of worship into mosques

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    The Church of SS Sergius and Bacchus, a church built by Justinian I, became a mosque dubbed the Little Hagia Sophia. The Church of Saint Andrew in Krisei, became the Koca Mustafa Pasha Mosque. The Church of Saint Thekla of the Palace of Blachernae, became the Atik Mustafa Pasha Mosque. The nunnery of Saint Theodosia, became the Gül Mosque.

  4. List of largest church buildings - Wikipedia

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    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

  5. Russian Orthodox Church says 'unacceptable' to turn Hagia ...

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    Converting Istanbul's Hagia Sophia monument from a museum to a mosque would be "unacceptable", a senior official in the Russian Orthodox Church said on Saturday. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan ...

  6. List of churches dedicated to Holy Wisdom - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. After Hagia Sophia, Turkey's historic Chora church also ... - AOL

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    Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan reconverted the historic Chora church, one of Istanbul's most celebrated Byzantine buildings, into a mosque on Friday, a month after opening the famed Hagia Sophia ...

  8. List of largest Eastern Orthodox church buildings - Wikipedia

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    Along with the largest volume and interior area, 126,1 m high and 120 m long, it is the tallest and longest Orthodox church building in the world. [4] Hagia Sophia: 7,960 [citation needed] 255,800 m³ [8] 532–537 Istanbul Turkey: Ecumenical Patriarchate 537-1453 converted to mosque Saint Isaac's Cathedral [b] 4,000 m² [9] 7,418 m² [10 ...

  9. Category:Hagia Sophia - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

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