Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey, Asia and Europe

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Hagia Sophia, now known as the Ayasofya Museum, was the greatest Christian church of the Middle Ages, later converted into an imperial mosque in 1453 by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed and into a museum in 1935. It is located in Istanbul, Turkey, on the Turkish Thrace. It is regularly considered one of the greatest and most beautiful buildings in history. Its conquest by the Ottomans at the fall of Constantinople is considered one of the great tragedies of Christianity by the Greek Orthodox faithful.

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