Hagia Sophia

The Constitutional Court of Turkey is due to decide on Thursday whether Hagia Sophia will be turned into a place of Muslim worship after an appeal made by a private organization called "Authority for Historical Monuments and Environment". The Temple that...

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Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan recited a verse from the Quran in honor of Istanbul's Ottoman conquerors in the Hagia Sophia on Saturday, describing the former imperial mosque and Orthodox cathedral as a "holy" place. Erdogan was speaking at the...

Holly icons from Greek Orthodox churches across Turkey are brought to Hagia Sophia for restoration work in order to be exhibited at a new museum. According to a Daily Sabah report, Christian icons from various Byzantine churches across Turkey are...

A panel of tiles in Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia Museum were smuggled to France in the 1890s and replaced with imitations, according to museum director Hayrullah Cengiz. “You can see the logo seal ‘made in France, Sevres’ behind the tiles,” Cengiz...

In protest to US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, members of the Alperen Ocakları; an offshoot of the Turkish nationalist movement the Grey Wolves, prayed at Hagia Sophia in İstanbul on Sunday, Turkish media reported. According to...

The Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a statement condemning Greece's reaction to the reading of the Quran and call for prayer in Hagia Sophia, accusing Greece of not respecting religious freedom. The statement calls on Greece "to be a modern and...

The Greek government reacted to Wednesday's reading of the Koran and Muslim prayer in Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, despite the strictly secular museum character of the monument. On Wednesday, there was a regular call to prayer, as is the case...

A group called "Youth of the East" is calling on Muslims to gather for morning prayer in Hagia Sophia on Saturday, an ANT1 television report said. With posters plastered in the walls all over Istanbul, the group calls on all...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continues his provocations against Greece by saying he will go for Muslim prayer in Hagia Sophia on Holy Friday claiming it is really a mosque and not a museum. Erdogan used the book "The Hagia...