View of Ayasofya
(Hagia Sophia)
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(Hagia Sophia)
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Ayasofya
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Ayasofya
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Ayasofya
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Ayasofya
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Ayasofya
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Ayasofya
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Ayasofya (Hagia Sophia)
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Ayasofya
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Ayasofya - Imperial Gate
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Ayasofya - Imperial Gate mosaic
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Ayasofya -The roof of the Nave
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Ayasofya
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Ayasofya
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Ayasofya
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Ayasofya
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Ayasofya
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Ayasofya
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Ayasofya - Apse mosaic of the Virgin and Child
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Ayasofya - Christian and Islamic elements
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Ayasofya
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Ayasofya - one of the four angels on the Dome
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Ayasofya
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The Weeping Column
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The Weeping Column
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The Weeping Column
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The Weeping Column
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Ayasofya - the road to the gallery
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Ayasofya - the road to the gallery
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Ayasofya - view from the gallery
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Ayasofya - Detail of a column
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Ayasofya - roof ornaments
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Ayasofya - view from the gallery
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Ayasofya - The mihrab stands where the altar was earlier.
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Ayasofya - view from the gallery
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Ayasofya - The Deësis mosaic
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Ayasofya -
The Comnenus mosaic
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The Comnenus mosaic
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Ayasofya -
The Comnenus mosaic
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The Comnenus mosaic
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Ayasofya -
The Empress Soe mosaic
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The Empress Soe mosaic
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Ayasofya -
The Empress Soe mosaic
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The Empress Soe mosaic
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Ayasofya
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Ayasofya
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Ayasofya
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Ayasofya - Tha Marble door
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Ayasofya -
Lustration urn from Pertgamon.
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Lustration urn from Pertgamon.
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Ayasofya
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Ayasofya - Wall decoratiojn with Christan cross within aniconic decoration
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Ayasofya -
Marble tiles on the wall
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Marble tiles on the wall
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Ayasofya -
Marble tiles on the wall
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Marble tiles on the wall
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Ayasofya - Marble tiles on the wall
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Ayasofya - Marble tile. Christian cross
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Ayasofya
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Ayasofya
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Ayasofya
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Ayasofya - Detail in a marble column
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Ayasofya
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Ayasofya - Sarcophagus of Empress Eirene
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Ayasofya - Sarcophagus of Empress Eirene
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Ayasofya - Sarcophagus of Empress
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Ayasofya - Narthex
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Ayasofya - Narthex
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Ayasofya - Roof
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Ayasofya - Southwestern entrance
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Ayasofya - Southwestern entrance mosaic
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Ayasofya - Entrance to the Courtyard of the Baptistery
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Entrance to Baptistery
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Baptistery
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Baptistery
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Baptistery
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Fountain for ritual ablutions
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Ayasofya
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Ayasofya
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Ayasofya
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Ayasofya
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Ayasofya
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Ayasofya
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Ayasofya
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Hagia Sophia
The Fatih district covers the ground of the old imperial capital of Constantinople and houses many historical sites.
Maybe the most known site is Hagia Sophia, that was built in 537 as the patriarchal cathedral in the imperial capital.
The building started as a Cristian Church and then an Orthodox Church. From 1204 to 1261, under the Latin Empire, it became the Latin Catholic Cathedral. After the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans, it was converted into a mosque. Under the secular Republic of Turkey it was made a museum, but in 2020 it was re-opened as a mosque.
Wikipedia: Hagia Sophia,
