“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 ...

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 ...

Islamic Heritage sites are distributed all over the world, even in the most unexpected places. Traveling and visiting the ...

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 ...

Once the largest Christian church for over a thousand years, Hagia Sophia was built under the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I. Over time, it has served as a Greek Orthodox cathedral, a Roman ...

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 ...

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America and the Foundation of the Hellenic World (FHW) have announced a historic ...

and the great cathedral of Hagia Sophia became a mosque. The world's balance of power had changed. But if the Byzantine state foundered, the Orthodox Church survived. The faith we see proclaimed ...