Hagia Sophia (Ayasofya Museum), Istanbul: an Islamic style grille window
Artist/Photographer | Kamen, Ruth |
Country | Turkey |
City | Istanbul |
Subject Date | 1453 |
Image Date | 2008 |
View | Exterior |
Style | Islamic |
Medium | Digital image |
Orientation | Landscape |
Colour Info | Colour |
Credit | Ruth Kamen / RIBA Collections |
Subject | Mosques ; Churches ; Museums ; Windows ; Conversion of buildings |
NOTES: The Church of the Holy Wisdom, known as Hagia Sophia in Greek, Sancta Sophia in Latin, and Ayasofya or Aya Sofya in Turkish, was a Byzantine church until 1453 when Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror made it his imperial mosque. In 1934 the mosque was secularized and turned into the Ayasofya Museum.
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