Built in the 12th century under Norman rule, it boasts Italy's largest Byzantine-style mosaics, second in the world only to those of Hagia Sophia ... the fashion of Constantinople, the capital ...

This was the proud thanksgiving uttered by Justinian the Great at the dedication of the church of St. Sophia (“Divine Wisdom”) in Constantinople ... expressed in mosaic; and the images of ...

Authorities in Turkey have sealed off a luxury spa set up by illegally modifying a 1,500-year-old cistern near Hagia Sophia ...

Hagia Sophia happens to be one of the oldest, largest, most beautiful, most celebrated, and most important churches of all Christendom. Built in the 530s in Constantinople, the capital of the ...

John Julius Norwich tells the dramatic story of the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine ... Greek Orthodox Christianity from within the Hagia Sophia. Norwich describes the calamitous scenes ...