This collection of mansions has a privileged location a block from the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia. At the centre of it all is a 19th-century elegant Ottoman wooden mansion, which served as the ...

Seraffettin was at home under coronavirus ­lockdown on May 29 when a Muslim cleric recited Quranic verses atop a carpeted dais inside Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia museum. But the imam’s reading, to mark ...

A Malaysian Muslim organization on Thursday threw its weight behind Turkey's initiative to reopen the historical Hagia Sofia as a mosque in Istanbul. "The Hagia Sophia is a mosque and it should be ...

Religious and political leaders are decrying Turkey's decision to make Istanbul's Hagia Sophia, known for its Christian origin and as the secular Muslim nation's most popular tourist site, into a ...

Istanbul: In its more than 1,400-year existence, the majestic domed structure of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul has served as the Byzantine Empire’s main cathedral, a mosque under the Ottoman Empire and a ...

President Obama kicked off his final day in Turkey with a visit to one of Istanbul's most recognizable sites, the Hagia Sofia. Built almost 1,500 years ago (it was constructed between the years 532 ...

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The Turkish President has flagged the possibility of renaming Istanbul’s Hagia Sofia museum as a mosque. Asked in a television interview whether the entrance fee to the city landmark might be waived, ...

Hagia Sofia officially re-opened Friday as a mosque after serving as a holy place of both Christianity and Islam before becoming a museum Hagia Sofia was officially opened as a mosque with Friday ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Thousands of Muslim faithful made their way to Istanbul’s landmark Hagia Sophia on Friday to take part in the first prayers in 86 years at the structure that once was one of ...

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