Building buttresses to support your heavy dome is a good solution -- but it won't work here. When the magnificent Turkish cathedral Hagia Sophia collapsed only 20 years after it was built ...

Most urgent is the preservation of its iconic dome, the underside of which is covered in mosaics, making structural intervention especially difficult. Completed in 537 CE, Hagia Sophia was the ...

Tourists flock en masse to the Hagia Sophia for its stunning architecture, glorious interior views and historical significance. Built between 532 and 537, the building was a church for nearly a ...

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.

After Dome of Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flowers in Italy and Dome of Hagia Sophia in Turkey, Dome of Soltaniyeh is the third largest dome in the world. The dome registered in Iran's National ...