Built 1,500 years ago as an Orthodox Christian cathedral, Hagia Sophia was converted into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest in 1453. In 1934 it became a museum and is now a Unesco World Heritage ...

Tourists flock en masse to the Hagia Sophia for its stunning architecture, glorious interior views and historical ... as a mosque from 1453 until 1935, before becoming a secular museum.

But in 1453, the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Mehmed II captured Constantinople, finishing off the Byzantine Empire once and for all. On entering the Hagia Sophia, Mehmed II insisted it be ...

The Hagia Sophia is a super famous building in Istanbul ... built as a church and then was converted into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453. So what is it?