Anicia Juliana was a Byzantine woman who managed to conquer the fields of architecture, using her massive wealth and noble lineage.

According to legend, after the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453, three Venetian ships fled the city filled with various relics to avoid their capture by the Turks, but the third which ...

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 ...

The Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque—Istanbul’s iconic ... and brilliant polychrome marble, it influenced both Christian and Islamic architecture for centuries. After the fall of Constantinople ...

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.

Сontents ・Blue Mosque ・Hagia Sophia ・Basilica Cistern ・Topkapi ... The Blue Mosque is built of stone and marble with a large number of windows, which makes it light, as if breathing ...