A woman wrapped in a Turkish national flag gestures outside the Hagia Sophia museum The world-famous Hagia Sophia museum in Istanbul - originally founded as a cathedral - has been turned back into ...

Dr. Hasan Fırat Diker, of the Hagia Sophia Science Council, said they’ve studied Hagia Sophia’s underground structures for five years.

The secular opposition party that runs Istanbul has described the move ... A 45-year-old woman said she had always liked Hagia Sophia as a museum, but "always thought it was a cold building".

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The following museums in and around Istanbul are free of charge—not just on certain days of the week or for certain folks but ...

Museum admission fees can add up quickly (and most attractions actually charge tourists in Euros rather than Turkish lira).

ISTANBUL, Dec 23 (KNA) -- Hagia Sophia mosque is a world-level historic ... but later was transformed into a mosque, later a museum and recently declared as a mosque. Construction work had begun ...

The Topkapi Palace Museum sits atop a promontory in Sultanahmet near the Basilica Cistern, the Hagia Sophia and the Istanbul Archaeological Museums. Multiple bus routes and the Bagcilar-Kabatas T1 ...

explaining an artifact in the “Ink, Silk, and Gold: Islamic Treasures from the Museum of Fine Arts ... the conversion of the Church of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul into a congregational mosque ...