Hagia Sophia in the city of Istanbul in Turkey. From the date of its construction in 537AD, and until 1453, it served as an Eastern Orthodox cathedral

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Hagia Sophia in the city of Istanbul in Turkey. From the date of its construction in 537AD, and until 1453, it served as an Eastern Orthodox cathedral, except between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted by the Fourth Crusaders to a Roman Catholic cathedral. The building was later converted into an Ottoman mosque in May 1453 until 1931. It was then secularized and opened as a museum in 1935.

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