The Cathedral Of Hagia Sophia

Turkey s recep tayip erdogan has ordered the conversion of the city s famous hagia sophia into a mosque after a turkish court ruled annulled a 1934 presidential decree which made it a museum.
The cathedral of hagia sophia. Speaking to church militant eminent islamic historian robert spencer said that attempts to draw an equivalency between hagia sophia and the córdoba cathedral are based on ignorance of history the córdoba cathedral was indeed once a mosque. The cathedral is named after the 6th century hagia sophia holy wisdom cathedral in constantinople present day istanbul which was dedicated to the holy wisdom rather than to a specific saint named sophia. The hagia sophia was a cathedral a mosque and a museum. Once the central church building of the eastern orthodox church hagia sophia is now a museum.
Ayasofya i kebir camii şerifi and formerly the church of hagia sophia is a late antique place of worship in istanbul. From the koinē greek. The first foundations were laid in 1037 or 1011 but the cathedral took two decades to complete. Hagia sophia ˈ h ɑː ɡ i ə s oʊ ˈ f iː ə.