Ayasofya Mosque. Fatih Sultan Mehmed Khan who possessed all the properties registered on the Byzantine dynasty endowed the mosque with the first prayer performed in Hagia Sophia established the Fatih Complex and the Hagia Sophia Al-Kabeer Foundation and in his will prescribed the preservation of Hagia Sophia eternally and stipulated the maintaining of its mosque status. It is five minutes walking distance from the Blue Mosque.
For the next 482 years the mosque welcomed Muslim worshippers. The Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque Ayasofya-i Kebir Cami-i Şerifi with its innovative architecture rich history religious significance and extraordinary characteristics has been fighting against time for centuries was the largest Eastern Roman Church in Istanbul. In the world-famous Aya Sofya theres graffiti left by at least one of our Viking ancestors.
The Unesco-listed Hagia Sophia Divine Wisdom known in Turkish as Ayasofya was completed in AD537 by the Byzantine emperor Justinian.
The historic site then became a museum in 1935 as part of a. Hagia Sophia İznik Turkey first a church then a mosque then a museum now again a mosque. 20000 likes 2291 talking about this 6015 were here. ISTANBUL President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a decree Friday ordering Hagia Sophia to be opened for Muslim prayers an action likely to.