hagia sophia church constantinople

The original Hagia Sophia church, the present building is the third, was inaugurated on the site of the current building on the 15th February 360. It was the largest church in the new capital of the Roman Empire, Constantinople...


Theodosian Hagia Sophia.


Once the grandest church in


It was the patriarchal church


Interior view of the Hagia


Hagia Sophia 4. The church


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Photo of the Day - Stray Cat in Hagia Sophia - Istanbul, TurkeyHonestly, I am not 100% sure this was taken in Hagia Sophia, but if it was not there, it was in its neighbor, the Blue Mosque. Regardless, it is always interesting to me to see 'domesticated' animals abroad.... And although I presume this cat was a stray, it was still there left to roam just as a cat might be at a cathedral here in the US. Now, I must say that not all stray animals are quite as elegant as this feline,...
Stray Cat in Hagia Sophia – Istanbul, Turkey | AbsoluteVisit

location: Istanbul, Turkey. Via Yavuz Han on Facebook: (from the Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, “Holy Wisdom”; Latin: Sancta Sophia or Sancta Sapientia; Turkish: Ayasofya) is a former Orthodox patriarchal basilica, later a mosque,... referred to as Sancta Sophia (as though it were named after Saint Sophia), sophia is the phonetic spelling in Latin of the Greek word for wisdom – the full name in Greek being Ναός τῆς Ἁγίας τοῦ Θεοῦ Σοφίας, “Church of the Holy Wisdom of God”.
hagia sophia church constantinople