Ayasofya (Hagia Sophia) travel guide

An ornate mosque turned into a museum, known for its large domed ceiling.

The Hagia Sophia, "church of the Holy Wisdom," squats over the Old Town of İstanbul like a toad with a highly curved back and thick legs. With its reddish shimmering brickwork and the four minarets dating from Ottoman times, the 1400-year-old building was still one of the distinctive features of Istanbul and is a landmark of the city to this day. The largest church of Christianity of the ancient world doesn’t look like much from the outside but offers a completely different picture to visitors as soon as they enter the nave: instead of massive and compact, the powerful dome seems to float high above, a terrestrial mirror of the sky.

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