Hagia Sophia, Türkiye

Hagia Sophia, Turkey Hagia Sophia (English: Hagia Sophia), meaning "Holy Wisdom", officially the Great Mosque of Ayasofya (Turkish: Ayasofya-i Kebir Camii Şerifi), is an ancient religious building designed in Istanbul by Isidore of Miletus and Antimius of Trulles, both Greeks. It was built in 537 AD as the cathedral of the Patriarch of Constantinople. It was the largest church in the Eastern Roman Empire and the Eastern Orthodox Church, except during the Latin Empire (1204–1261), when it became the Latin Cathedral of the City. In 1453, after the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire, The sanctuary was converted into a mosque in 1935. The religiously neutral Turkish Republic turned it into a museum, and in 2020 it was reopened as a mosque. #Turkey #WaitingForDeparture #EscapeAccount