GRAVÜR DÜNYASI
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| Artist | Paul Dumouza (1812-….) |
| Engraver | Augustin François Lemaitre (1797-1870) |
| Date | 1840 |
| Technique | Copper Engraving |
| Category | Ottoman Empire And Turkey |
| Source | Turkey Volume Of L'Univers Pittoresque, Paris |
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.
