Turkey has created a digital twin of Hagia Sophia, in order to rebuild it if it gets destroyed by a catastrophic earthquake ...

In a divided world, sacred spaces like Al Aqsa and Babri Masjid, which have raised nationalistic fervour, should have endured ...

Hagia Sophia is the former Greek Orthodox Christian patriarchal cathedral built in AD 532-537 in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey). It was turned into an Ottoman imperial mosque in 1453 ...

The head of Russia’s Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill said he was “deeply concerned” by the moves, describing Hagia Sophia as “one of the greatest monuments of Christian culture.” ...

Hagia Sophia was a cathedral for nearly 1,000 years before being converted into a mosque in 1453 and a museum in 1935. Diyanet said in a statement on Tuesday that the Christian icons in Hagia ...

The Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church is the second-largest religion in Poland ... by the contours of one of the world’s most-recognisable buildings – the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. The Warsaw ...

“I think of Hagia Sophia, and I am very saddened,” Pope ... Bishop Hilarion, who heads the Russian Orthodox Church's department for external church relations, described it as “a blow to ...

Tourists flock en masse to the Hagia Sophia for its stunning architecture, glorious interior views and historical significance. Built between 532 and 537, the building was a church for nearly a ...

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As the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the “Days of Slavic Culture ... was librarian of the great cathedral of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople until 860, when he resigned to join St. Methodius, the ...

at the back of the cathedral. It is a typical Orthodox Christian icon, also present in the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. The ...