Hagia Sophia
Mosque, museum, and former church in Istanbul, Turkey
Also known as Santa Sophia · St. Sophia Basilica · Church of Saint Sophia · Church of the Holy Wisdom · Hagia Sophia Mosque · Ayasofya
- Height
- 55 m
- Architect
- Opened
- 537
- Founded
- February 23, 532
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Sources- 1.“The Making of Hagia Sophia and the Last Pagans of New Rome”muse.jhu.edu/content/crossref/journals/journal_of_late_antiquity/v006/6.2.kaldellis.htmlRetrieved 2023-01-16
- , December 27, 537
- , February 15, 360
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Sources- 1.Stated in Google Books“Hagia Sophia in Context: An Archaeological Re-examination of the Cathedral of Byzantine Constantinople”books.google.com/books?id=TU7lswEACAAJRetrieved 2023-01-16
- +1 more
- February 23, 532
- Located in
- Fatih
- , Istanbul
- , Istanbul Province
- +1 more
- Country
- Architectural style
- Byzantine architecture
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Sources- 1.Stated in Google Books“Αγια Σοφια: ο ναος της Αγιας του Θεου Σοφιας”books.google.com/books?id=znPqAAAAMAAJRetrieved 2023-01-16
- , basilica
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Sources- 1.Stated in Google Books“Αγια Σοφια: ο ναος της Αγιας του Θεου Σοφιας”books.google.com/books?id=znPqAAAAMAAJRetrieved 2023-01-16
- Byzantine architecture
Overview
All data
154 statements · 16% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Native label
- Αγία Σοφία
- Ayasofya
- Religion or worldview
- Sunni Islam(since 2020)
- Eastern Orthodoxy(until 1204)
- Catholicism(1204–1261)
- Eastern Orthodoxy(1261–1453)
- Sunni Islam(1453–1934)
- none(1935–2020)
- Commons Institution page
- Ayasofya
- Payment types accepted
- cash(until 2020) currency: Turkish lira
- Müzekart(until 2020)
- Name
- basilique de Sainte-Sophie(1841)
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- basilique de Sainte-Sophie(1841)
- Patron saint
- Jesus Christ(until 1453)
- Dissolved
- 404 object named as: Church of Constantinus II · cause of destruction: conflagration
- January 14, 532 object named as: Church of Theodosius II · cause of destruction: conflagration
- Length
- 82 m
- Width
- 73 m
- Significant event
- renovation(since 2023)
- transformation religion or worldview: Islam
- Diameter
- 31 m
On other databases
69 identifiers linking Hagia Sophia across the web's reference databases
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- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID119462371
- Biblissima authority IDQ80903
- Comic Vine ID4020-61713
- Cultural Objects Names Authority ID700000141
- Dictionary of Late Antiquity ID5587
- Dijital İstanbul cultural property ID21678
- Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID104593
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- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)xtyiA
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- Lex IDHagia_Sophia
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- National Library of Greece ID56004
- National Library of Israel ID (old)000013687
- National Library of Spain SpMaBN IDXX185708
- NE.se IDhagia-sofia
- NL CR AUT IDkn20020322386
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- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID3909438
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- Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts name ID22288
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- UK Parliament thesaurus ID488392
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- World Heritage Site ID356
- World History Encyclopedia IDHagia_Sophia
- Yale LUX IDgroup/ea5b9d4c-fd45-4989-ad0f-027171a6c6a1