Adventures in the Middle East

Saturday, October 28, 2006

This is a picture from inside the Hagia Sofia in Istanbul. The building was originally constructed as a church in 537 ad as a church but then was converted to a mosque in 1453 by the Ottoman Turks and at last a secular monument by the Turkish government in 1935 to preserve both the Christian and Islamic history of the building.

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