{"id":6079,"date":"2013-07-31T04:53:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T04:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapsofworld.com\/travel\/?p=6079"},"modified":"2022-09-19T11:08:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T11:08:46","slug":"hagia-sophia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofworld.com\/travel\/destinations\/turkey\/hagia-sophia\/","title":{"rendered":"Hagia Sophia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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Hagia Sophia In Istanbul<\/div><\/a>\"Hagia
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Hagia Sophia<\/strong> is an extremely beautiful and important architectural monument, which once used to be a church. It was then converted into a mosque and later into a Turkish museum in 1935. The city of Istanbul carries cultures from both Byzantie and Ottoman empires and the museum is considered to be a perfect combination of the two.<\/p>\n

Hagia Sophia was chosen to be a world heritage site by UNESCO in the year of 1985. It\u2019s an architectural marvel and had been the largest cathedral for around 1,000 years. Its dome, which sits at the center of the church, is mainly what makes Hagia Sophia this famous. Due to several constructions and repair done over the years, the dome lost its circular structure and its diameter has changed.<\/p>\n

Hagia Sophia Map<\/span><\/h2>\n