Istanbul’s historic Hagia Sophia has reopened for Friday prayers for the first time since ... the Roman Empire’s first cathedral. It was St. John Lateran in Rome. CNN’s Isil Sariyuce and ...

Turkey held the first organized Muslim prayers Friday in the famed Hagia Sophia after the grand ancient building was converted from a museum into a mosque. In Istanbul today, Turkey's president ...

which would open up the structure for Muslim prayers. Like the Hagia Sophia, which was a church for centuries and then a mosque for centuries more, the Church of St. Saviour had operated as a ...

ISTANBUL (AFP) - Turkey's Hagia Sophia will open to visitors outside prayer times and its Christian ... not from a church," he said. Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking ...

Thousands of people attended prayers at Istanbul's historic Hagia Sophia on Friday, completing the famous building's conversion from a secular space into a Muslim house of worship. It had been a ...

"Like all our mosques, the doors of Hagia Sophia will be wide open to locals and foreigners, Muslims and non-Muslims," Erdogan said at a press conference noting Muslim prayer will begin on July 24.

WHEN the fierce Moslems stormed the town, They sacked Byzantium up and down: Not even Saint Sophia stayed Their cruel ... there Had just begun to chant his prayer, His prayer, unbroken, chanted ...

Volodymyr Zelensky extended Easter greetings to Ukrainians on Sunday, May 5th, in a video address recorded near the St. Sophia Cathedral, one of the holiest sites in Eastern Orthodox Christianity.

Istanbul’s historic Hagia Sophia has reopened for Friday prayers for the first time since ... the Roman Empire’s first cathedral. It was St. John Lateran in Rome. CNN’s Isil Sariyuce and ...