A woman wrapped in a Turkish national flag gestures outside the Hagia Sophia museum ... museum in Istanbul - originally founded as a cathedral - has been turned back into a mosque. Turkey's ...

The Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarch ... through arduous restoration work for the museum. Hagia Sophia was the most popular museum in Turkey last year, drawing more than 3.7 million visitors.

“Hagia Sophia, located in Istanbul, is a monument to all mankind ... Hagia Sophia was the most popular museum in Turkey last year, drawing more than 3.7 million visitors. Before the decision ...

Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia open to Muslim worship after a top court ruled that the building’s conversion to a museum by modern Turkey’s ...

Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarch ... In a tweet, he urged Turkey to keep the Hagia Sophia a museum to show it respected pluralism. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan responded that such reactions ...

“Hagia Sophia, located in Istanbul, is a monument to all mankind ... Hagia Sophia was the most popular museum in Turkey last year, drawing more than 3.7 million visitors. Before the decision ...

Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia site has stood as empires ... had been a “very big mistake” to turn it into a museum. Ziya Meral, a member of Turkey’s Christian community believed to number ...

ANKARA, Turkey ... prayers in Hagia Sophia in 86 years, brushing aside the international criticism and calls for the monument to be kept as a museum in recognition of Istanbul’s multi ...

Istanbul’s historic Hagia Sophia has reopened for Friday ... The historic site then became a museum in 1935 as part of a decree by modern Turkey’s secularist founding father Mustafa Kemal ...

In 1928, Turkey became a secular state, and the mosque was soon converted into a museum ... at the monument again. The Hagia Sophia is considered one of Istanbul’s most historical artifacts.

The Hagia Sophia church, now a museum, on October 17, 2009 in Istanbul, Turkey. The Hagia Sophia church, now a museum, on October 17, 2009 in Istanbul, Turkey. Carsten Koall/Getty Now the Hagia ...

A woman wrapped in a Turkish national flag gestures outside the Hagia Sophia museum ... museum in Istanbul - originally founded as a cathedral - has been turned back into a mosque. Turkey's ...