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Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque

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The Hagia Sophia is a mosque, museum, and former church in Istanbul, Turkey, considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture and a cultural and historical site. Built by Byzantine emperor Justinian I as a Christian cathedral between 532-537, it was designed by Greek geometers Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles, and served as the ecumenical patriarch's see and the world's largest cathedral for nearly a thousand years. After the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire in 1453, it was converted into a mosque, and later became a museum in 1935 before being redesignated as a mosque in 2020, with its upper floor serving as a museum.learn more on wikipedia

Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque