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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.
Jesus Christ Pantocrator (Detail from the deesis mosaic in Hagia Sophia, Istanbul) Christ Pantocrator in the dome of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre's catholicon. Church domes are a common site of Pantocrator images. In Christian iconography, Christ Pantocrator (Ancient Greek: Χριστὸς Παντοκράτωρ, lit.
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
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 ...
The extant building of the Hagia Sophia dates to the 6th century. It is not entirely clear when the first church at the site had been dedicated to Hagia Sophia. The first church on the site, consecrated in 360 (during the reign of Constantius II), was simply known as the Μεγάλη Ἐκκλησία (Megálē Ekklēsíā, "Great Church", or ...
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 ...
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
For more than 700 years, the Church of the Holy Apostles was the second most important church in Constantinople, after that of the Holy Wisdom (Hagia Sophia).But whereas the church of the Holy Wisdom was in the city's oldest part, that of the Holy Apostles stood in the newer part of the expanded imperial capital, on the great thoroughfare called Mese Odós (English: Central Street), and became ...
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