Facing the Hagia Sophia across an attractive park, the Blue Mosque is every westerner’s idea of what a mosque looks like. Built in 1609, from the outside it is all domes and half-domes, framed ...

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A view of the 1486-year-old Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque, undergoing the largest and most comprehensive restoration process in history, in Istanbul, Turkiye on April 14, 2025. ‘Our goal is to ...

Since then, foreign tourists have to pay a fee to enter the mosque. Hagia Sophia is a monument of Byzantine architecture built between 532 and 537 under Emperor Justinian's direction to serve as a ...

In Istanbul, a center of culture, commerce and power for more than 2,000 years, the past never feels distant. Yet ...

They also facilitated ventilation, enabling air circulation between the interior and exterior spaces and directing rainwater from hard-to-reach areas to external drainage stations. The accessible ...

Hagia Sophia – definitely best-known monument. Built in 340 AD as a church, it has changed its role over the years. It was used as a mosque and now serves as a museum. Grand Bazarr – dating to the ...

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As a Greek delegation prepares to arrive in Cairo on Wednesday to resolve tensions over the fate of St Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, Ahram Online examines how the controversy surrounding one ...

Scaffolds are installed at Hagia Sophia mosque for restoration work in Istanbul, Turkiye, on Sunday. EMRAH GUREL/AP ISTANBUL — Turkiye has begun a new phase in the sweeping restorations of the nearly ...

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Curtains cover Christian frescoes inside Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque during the afternoon prayer in Istanbul, Turkey, July 26, 2020. [Photo/Agencies] Thousands of faithful made their way into Istanbul's ...