One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

Despite some amazing successes, there were severe issues with Justinian’s great conquests which would help to unravel part of his legacy in the coming years. What may have seemed to be the great ...

During its five-year construction, Justinian instructed his provincial ... Hagia Sophia has been defined as an absolute symbol of conquest.” It is still like that in the minds of many Muslim ...

Turkey has begun a new phase in sweeping restorations of the nearly 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, focusing on ...