Hagia Sophia
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Hagia Sophia

Mosque, museum, and former church in Istanbul, Turkey.

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Hagia Sophia, officially the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque, is a mosque and a major cultural and historical site in Istanbul, Turkey. It was formerly a church (360–1453) and a museum (1935–2020). The last of three church buildings to be successively erected on the site by the Eastern Roman Empire, it was completed in AD 537, becoming the world's largest interior space and among the first to employ a fully pendentive dome.

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41.00833, 28.98000 · Istanbul

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