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 ...

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 ...

Sultan Ahmed I was determined to build a mosque that rivaled the nearby Hagia Sophia, and most would agree that he accomplished this task or, at least, came close. Since the early 1600s ...

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.

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 ...