Pope Benedict XVI visited the Blue Mosque in Istanbul Thursday, becoming the second pope to enter a Muslim place of worship. He also visited Aya Sophia, which used to be Christianity's largest church.

A lingering dispute centers over whether an ancient Byzantine landmark should be a mosque, a cathedral or a museum. Debate over the status of Aya Sofia has been re-ignited by Pope Benedict's trip ...

Hagia Sophia Mosque (Ayasofya Cami) is ranked #2 out of 19 things to do in Istanbul. See pictures and our review of Hagia Sophia Mosque (Ayasofya Cami).

The Aya Sofia museum in Istanbul should function as a mosque, the Deputy Chairman of the Turkish oppositional Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and member of the country’s parliament, Yusuf ...

Conditions created by the authorities for religious minorities, should also be created for the Muslims, and Aya Sofia ( also Haghia Sophia ) must regain the status of mosque, Turkish Grand Unity ...

S eraffettin was at home under coronavirus ­lockdown on May 29 when a Muslim cleric recited Quranic verses atop a carpeted dais inside Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia museum. But the imam’s reading ...

Two scholars at Stanford have joined forces to recreate what a Christian choir might have sounded like inside Istanbul's Hagia Sophia before it became a mosque in the 1400s.

The Istanbul landmark had served as one of Christendom’s most significant cathedrals. Fulfilling a dream of his Islamic-oriented youth, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan joined hundreds of ...

"We want Hagia Sophia to open as a mosque," said Yusuf Yalcin, 37, of Istanbul, ... chanted the Islamic morning prayer inside the Hagia Sophia for the first time since 1935.