Hagia Sophia

MosqueFatih, İstanbul

41.0083°N · 28.9800°E

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Built: 537
Length: 82 m
Style: Byzantine architecture
Status: part of UNESCO World Heritage Site

Hagia Sophia is a mosque in Fatih, İstanbul; Justinian's 6th-century cathedral, mosque since 1453 — the dome that defined a millennium of architecture.

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Location: 41.0083°N · 28.9800°E

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Justinian's 6th-century cathedral, mosque since 1453 — the dome that defined a millennium of architecture.

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Hagia Sophia, officially the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque, is a former church converted into a mosque in Istanbul's Fatih district. Built by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I between 532 and 537, it became the world's largest interior space and, with its fully pendentive dome, is regarded as the epitome of Byzantine architecture. Serving as the cathedral of Constantinople until 1453, it was converted into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest, became a museum from 1935 to 2020, and was redesignated a mosque in 2020.