***Hagia Sophia once it was a basilica, later it became a mosque and now this beauty serves as a museum*****
Hagia Sophia is situated in Istanbul, Turkey.
Its construction was started in 537 until 1453, it served as a Greek Orthodox cathedral and seat of the Patriarch of Constantinople except between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted to a Roman Catholic cathedral under the Latin Empire.
The building was a mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931. It was then secularized and opened as a museum on 1 February 1935.
It contains two floors centered on a giant nave that has a great dome ceiling, along with smaller domes, towering above.
Beneath the dome are 40 windows with sunlight coming through.
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