The tremors caused the minaret of Istanbul's famed Fatih Sultan Mehmet Mosque to sway in the air. The country is no stranger to seismic activity; memories of a devastating 2023 earthquake that ...

The mosque survived Abdulhamid’s overthrow by the Young Turks in 1909 and continued to be the main sultanic mosque of the city during the First World War, with both Sultan Mehmed Reshad (Mehmet ...

But in 1453 when Ottoman forces led by Sultan Fatih Mehmet conquered Constantinople, now Istanbul, his first act on entering the city was to pray in the cathedral and declare it a mosque.

"The portrait of Fatih Sultan Mehmet returns to the city he conquered exactly 540 years later. The opening of the Hagia Sophia is coming," he wrote on Twitter. "Stop fighting, enjoy it." ...

The religious school takes its name from Fatih (Conqueror), the title given to Sultan Mehmet II, who conquered the city in 1453. It was the first of its kind in the capital of the former Ottoman ...

CONSTANTINOPLE, May 10.—The ceremony of girding the sword of Osman upon Mehmed V., the new Sultan of Turkey, who succeeded the deposed Abdul Hamid, took place to-day in the Mosque Ayoub, the ...

The tremors caused the minaret of Istanbul's famed Fatih Sultan Mehmet Mosque to sway in the air. The country is no stranger to seismic activity; memories of a devastating 2023 earthquake that ...