Before converting from a museum to a mosque in 2020, the entrance fee to Hagia Sophia was 100 Turkish lira (approximately $2). Until the recent change, like all other mosques in Turkey ...

Turkey's Hagia Sophia will open to visitors outside prayer times and its Christian icons will remain, religious officials said on Tuesday, after a court ruling paved the way for it to become a mosque.

The main entrance is now reserved for Turkish citizens. The tickets allow access to an open tunnel through which visitors can visit Hagia Sophia without disturbing prayers. Local press compared it ...

At the entrance of the most iconic mosques ... Before entering the Hagia Sophia, for example, there is a little booth for this purpose. So, if you are a non-Muslim visitor, just follow the ...

According to legend, after the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453, three Venetian ships fled the city filled with various relics to avoid their capture by the Turks, but the third which ...

What's more, this attraction is not as central and popular as others like the Hagia Sophia, meaning you won ... the mosque offers loaner coverings at its entrance. Süleymaniye Mosque is free ...