Hagia Sophia or Aya Sofya is Istanbul’s Legacy of Christian and Muslim Cultures: Hagia Sophia or Aya Sofya (The Church of the Holy Wisdom), was formerly a Byzantine church which was converted into a mosque when Sultan Mehmed II conquered Istanbul in 1453. When Turkey became a republic in 1934, Hagia Sofia was turned […]
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