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![The Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque / Ayasofya-i Kebir Cami-i Åerifi, with its innovative architecture, rich history, religious significance and extraordinary characteristics has been fighting against time for centuries, is the largest Eastern Roman Church in Istanbul. Constructed three times in the same location, it is the worldās oldest and fastest-completed cathedral. With its breathtaking domes that look like hanging in the air, monolithic marble columns and unparalleled mosaics, is one of the wonders of worldās architecture history. Hagia Sophia (/ĖhÉĖÉ”iÉ soŹĖfiĖÉ/; from KoinÄ Greek: į¼Ī³ĪÆĪ± Ī£ĪæĻĪÆĪ±, romanized: HagĆa SophĆa; Latin: Sancta Sophia, lit. 'Holy Wisdom'), officially the Hagia Sophia Holy Grand Mosque (Turkish: Ayasofya-i Kebir Cami-i Åerifi)[3] and formerly the Church of Hagia Sophia,[4] is a Late Antique place of worship in Istanbul, designed by the Greek geometers Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles.[5] Built in 537 as the patriarchal cathedral of the imperial capital of Constantinople, it was the largest Christian church of the eastern Roman Empire (the Byzantine Empire) and the Eastern Orthodox Church, except during the Latin Empire from 1204 to 1261, when it became the city's Roman Catholic cathedral. In 1453, after the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire, it was converted into a mosque. In 2020, it re-opened as a mosque.](https://media.istockphoto.com/id/1439280467/photo/hagia-sophia-grand-mosque-aerial-view-of-istanbul-hagia-sophia-aerial-view-of-hagia-sophia.jpg?b=1&s=612x612&w=0&k=20&c=jqcF_O9rIsO7kx2X_qSqgpAurGadHVQahGC12NntC6E=)
