Turkey has created a digital twin of Hagia Sophia, in order to rebuild it if it gets destroyed by a catastrophic earthquake ...

Most urgent is the preservation of its iconic dome, the underside of which is covered in mosaics, making structural intervention especially difficult. Completed in 537 CE, Hagia Sophia was the ...

Hagia Sophia has collapsed four times ... In “Saving Michelangelo’s Dome: How Three Mathematicians and a Pope Sparked an Architectural Revolution,” Wayne Kalayjian, a civil and structural ...

Turkey's Hagia Sophia will open to visitors outside prayer times and its Christian icons will remain, religious officials said on Tuesday, after a court ruling paved the way for it to become a mosque.

In a divided world, sacred spaces like Al Aqsa and Babri Masjid, which have raised nationalistic fervour, should have endured ...

Built by the Romans 1,500 years ago, the Hagia Sophia was the biggest church in the world. No expense was spared: it contained coloured marble from around the Roman Empire and nearly 10,000 square ...

Built between 1550 and 1557 after being commissioned by its namesake, Süleyman I, this grand structure features multiple gardens and a large dome ... others like the Hagia Sophia, meaning ...

Cosmopolitan Istanbul, on the Bosphorus Strait, is home to the iconic Hagia Sophia, with its soaring dome and Christian mosaics, the massive 17th-century Blue Mosque and the circa-1460 Topkapı ...