The Hagia Sophia remains a highly popular tourist destination, attracting millions of travelers. Here is a detailed look at ...

Turkey started the first-ever restoration work on the main dome of Hagia Sophia, one of the most important historical sites in Istanbul ...

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

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

He saw himself as coming not to destroy the empire ... "This is the premier monument of Byzantine civilization," says Ousterhout. "Old buildings like Hagia Sophia are ignored until there's ...

STORY: Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia is about to undergo one of its biggest repairs as Turkey begins restoring and reinforcing the ...

The Hagia Sophia is at the centre of Turkey's Byzantine, Ottoman and secular history. How did the sixth-century cathedral ...

Byzantine-era monuments in Istanbul, Turkey, formerly the Byzantine capital city known as Constantinople, are being covered ...

Hagia Sophia is the former Greek Orthodox Christian ... It was turned into an Ottoman imperial mosque in 1453, after the fall of the Byzantine Empire, and is now a museum. The building, famous ...