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Hagia Sophia
Ayasofya Meydanı, Sultanahmet Fatih, Turkey Phone: 90 212 522 1750 www.hagiasophia.comAbout
Hagia Sophia is a great architectural beauty and an important monument both for Byzantine and for Ottoman Empires.Once a church, later a mosque and now a museum at the Turkish Republic, Hagia Sophia has always been the precious of its time.The building was a mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931.It was then secularized and opened as a museum on1February 1935.Hagia Sophia is the one of the most visited museums and most prominent monuments in the world in terms of art and the history of architecture.It has also been called "the eighth wonder of the world" by East Roman Philon as far back as the 6th century.
