Dome of Soltaniyeh is the tomb of Oljaitu which was constructed from 1302 to 1312 AD in Soltaniyeh City (Ilkhanid capital) ...

Islamic Heritage sites are distributed all over the world, even in the most unexpected places. Traveling and visiting the ...

The museum's digital experience rooms use cutting-edge technology to immerse visitors in the history of Hagia Sophia and ...

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

Most urgent is the preservation of its iconic dome, the underside of which is covered in mosaics, making structural intervention especially difficult. Completed in 537 CE, Hagia Sophia was the ...

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.

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 between 1550 and 1557 after being commissioned by its namesake, Süleyman I, this grand structure features multiple gardens and a large dome ... others like the Hagia Sophia, meaning ...

Cosmopolitan Istanbul, on the Bosphorus Strait, is home to the iconic Hagia Sophia, with its soaring dome and Christian mosaics, the massive 17th-century Blue Mosque and the circa-1460 Topkapı ...