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Hagia Sophia

Istanbul '22

 

Hagia Sophia (Ayasofya Mosque) was built in 537 by the emperor Justinian and served as the chief church of the Byzantine Empire. It was converted into a mosque after the Turkish conquest in 1453, secularized into a museum in 1945, and then reconsecrated as a mosque in 2020.

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Uploaded on June 27, 2023
Taken on June 12, 2022