Mosque Of St.Sophia At Constantinople

Engraver	Frederick Rudolph Hay (1784-….)
Date	1813
Technique	Copper Engraving
Category	Ottoman Empire And Turkey
Source	The Gallery Of Nature And Art (London, Published By R.Wilks, 89 Chancery Lane Aug. 1 1813)

Description

Hagia Sophia was built by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I in 537 as a church on the historical peninsula of Istanbul. After Istanbul was conquered by the Ottomans in 1453, it was converted into a mosque by Fatih Sultan Mehmet. It was used as a museum between 1935-2020, and it has been used as a mosque again since 2020.

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