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Hagia Sophia

Hagia Sophia, officially the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque, is a mosque serving as a major cultural and historical site in , . It was formerly a church and a .
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  • Opening hours: 9:00 AM—7:30 PM
  • Email: contact@muze.gen.tr
  • Type: Mosque
  • Description: mosque, museum, and former church in Istanbul, Turkey
  • Also known as: “Ayasofya”, “Ayasofya-i Kebir Câmi-i Şerifi”, “Church of Saint Sophia”, “Church of the Holy Wisdom”, “Great Church”, “Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque”, “Hagia Sophia Mosque”, “Santa Sophia”, “St. Sophia Basilica”, and “The Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque”
  • Address: Soğukçeşme Sokağı, İstanbul, Turkey, 34122
  • Wheelchair access: yes
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Basilica Cistern and Topkapı Palace.

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The , or Cisterna Basilica, is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that lie beneath the city of , . The cistern, located 150 metres southwest of the Hagia Sophia on the historical peninsula of , was built in the 6th century during the reign of Byzantine emperor Justinian I. is situated 170 metres west of Hagia Sophia.

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The or the Seraglio, is a large museum and library in the east of the district of in . From the 1460s to the completion of in 1856, it served as the administrative center of the Ottoman Empire, and was the main residence of its sultans. is situated 580 metres northeast of Hagia Sophia.

Fountain
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The Fountain of Sultan Ahmed III is a fountain in the great square in front of the Imperial Gate of in , . It was built under Ottoman sultan Ahmed III in 1728, in the style of the Tulip period. is situated 110 metres east of Hagia Sophia.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mollafenari and Beyazıt.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of , , . Its population is 99. It is on the European side of .

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Quarter
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, historically known as Pérama, is a predominantly commercial waterfront area of within the district near the confluence of the Golden Horn with the southern entrance of the Bosphorus strait and the Sea of Marmara.

Hagia Sophia

Latitude
41.00851° or 41° 0′ 31″ north
Longitude
28.98° or 28° 58′ 48″ east
Elevation
51 metres (167 feet)
Open location code
8GHC2X5H+CX
Open­Street­Map ID
way 109862851
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­mosque
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­church
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tourism=­attraction
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Geo­Names ID
6947665
Wiki­data ID
Q12506
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Hagia Sophia” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Meuseujid Aya Sophia”
  • Afrikaans: “Aya Sophia”
  • Afrikaans: “Hagia Sofia”
  • Albanian: “Aja Sofia”
  • Albanian: “Ajasofja”
  • Albanian: “Aya Sofia”
  • Amharic: “ሃጊያ ሶፊያ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἁγία Σοφία”
  • Arabic: “آيا صوفيا”
  • Arabic: “جامع آيا صوفيا”
  • Arabic: “كاتدرائية آيا صوفيا”
  • Arabic: “كنيسة آيا صوفيا”
  • Aragonese: “Santa Sofiya d’Istambul”
  • Aragonese: “Santa Sofiya dIstambul”
  • Armenian: “Սուրբ Սոֆիայի տաճար”
  • Assamese: “হাজিয়া চ’ফিয়া”
  • Asturian: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Asturian: “Santa Sofía”
  • Avaric: “Айя София”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aya Sofya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ayasofiya”
  • Balinese: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Bashkir: “Айя Суфия”
  • Basque: “Hagia Sofia”
  • Basque: “Santa Sofia”
  • Bavarian: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Belarusian: “Сафійскі сабор”
  • Bengali: “আয়া সোফিয়া”
  • Bengali: “হাজিয়া সোফিয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Aja Sofija”
  • Bosnian: “Ajasofija”
  • Bosnian: “Džamija Aja Sofija”
  • Bosnian: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Breton: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Breton: “Mirdi Santez-Sofia”
  • Breton: “Santez-Sofia (Istanbul)”
  • Breton: “Santez-Sofia”
  • Bulgarian: “„Света София“”
  • Bulgarian: “Света София”
  • Burmese: “ဟာဂီယာ ဆိုဖီယာ”
  • Catalan: “Santa Sofia”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئایاسۆفیا”
  • Chechen: “Айя Софи”
  • Chechen: “Сийлахь Софин Килс”
  • Chinese: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Chinese: “圣索菲亚”
  • Chinese: “圣索菲亚大教堂”
  • Chinese: “聖蘇菲亞大教堂”
  • Chinese: “阿亚索菲亚 / 阿亞索菲亞”
  • Chinese: “阿亚索菲亚”
  • Cornish: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Aya Sofya”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Ayasofya”
  • Croatian: “Aja Sofija”
  • Croatian: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Czech: “Chrám Boží moudrosti”
  • Czech: “Hagia Sofia”
  • Danish: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Dhivehi: “ހާޖިޔާ ސޯފިޔާ”
  • Dhivehi: “އާޔާސޯފިޔާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Ayasofya”
  • Dutch: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ايا صوفيا”
  • Esperanto: “Hagia Sofia”
  • Estonian: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Finnish: “Hagia Sofia”
  • French: “basilique de Constantinople”
  • French: “basilique Sainte-Sophie”
  • French: “Sainte Sophie”
  • French: “Sainte-Sophie”
  • Ga: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Galician: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Galician: “Igrexa de Santa Sofía de Istanbul”
  • Galician: “Igrexa de Santa Sofía”
  • Galician: “Santa Sofía”
  • Galician: “Santa Sophia”
  • Georgian: “აია-სოფიას ტაძარი”
  • German: “Ayasofya”
  • German: “Hagia Sofia”
  • German: “Hagia Sophia”
  • German: “Sophienkirche”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Ayasofya”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Church of Saint Sophia”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Hagia Sophia Mosque”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Santa Sophia”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “St. Sophia Basilica”
  • Greek: “Αγία Σοφία”
  • Greek: “Ἁγία Σοφία”
  • Greek: “Αγια-Σοφιά”
  • Greek: “Μεγάλη Εκκλησία”
  • Greek: “Ναός της Αγίας του Θεού Σοφίας”
  • Guarani: “Marangatu Sofía”
  • Hausa: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Hebrew: “איה סופיה”
  • Hindi: “हागिया सोफिया (आयासोफ़िया मस्जिद)”
  • Hindi: “हागिया सोफिया”
  • Hungarian: “Hagia Szophia”
  • Icelandic: “Ægisif”
  • Ido: “Hagia Sofia”
  • Iloko: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Iloko: “Santa Sofia”
  • Inari Sami: “Hagia Sofia”
  • Indonesian: “Hagia Sofia, Istanbul”
  • Indonesian: “Hagia Sofia”
  • Irish: “Hagia Sofia”
  • Italian: “Agia Sofia”
  • Italian: “Ayasofya”
  • Italian: “basilica di Santa Sofia”
  • Italian: “Basilica di Santa Sofia”
  • Italian: “Santa Sofia”
  • Japanese: “アヤソフィア”
  • Japanese: “アヤソフィア博物館”
  • Javanese: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Kabiyè: “Sophie Kiɖeɖeu Keɖeyaɣ wondu ɖɩɣa”
  • Kabyle: “Aya Sofya”
  • Kabyle: “Aya Sufya”
  • Kazakh: “Айя София”
  • Kirghiz: “Айя-София”
  • Kirghiz: “Айя-Софья”
  • Korean: “아야 소피아”
  • Kurdish: “Ayasofya”
  • Ladino: “Santa Sofia”
  • Latin: “Aedes Sanctae Sophiae”
  • Latin: “Sancta Sophia”
  • Latvian: “Svētā Sofija”
  • Lithuanian: “Sofijos soboras”
  • Low German: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Luxembourgish: “Hagia Sofia”
  • Macedonian: “Аја Софија”
  • Macedonian: “Црква Света Софија”
  • Malagasy: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Malay: “Aya Sophia”
  • Malayalam: “ഹഗിയ സോഫിയ”
  • Malayalam: “ഹേജിയ സോഫിയ”
  • Maltese: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Marathi: “हागिया सोफिया”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Minangkabau: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Mingrelian: “აია-სოფიაშ ოხიდა”
  • Mongolian: “Софийн цогчин дуган”
  • Nepali: “ह्यागिया सोफिया”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hagia Sofia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hagia Sofia”
  • Norwegian: “Hagia Sofia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Hagia Sophia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Santa Sofia”
  • Panjabi: “ਆਈਆ ਸੋਫ਼ੀਆ”
  • Panjabi: “ਹਾਗੀਆ ਸੋਫੀਆ”
  • Persian: “ایا صوفیه”
  • Persian: “ایاصوفیه”
  • Piemontese: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Polish: “Hagia Sofia”
  • Polish: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Portuguese: “Basílica de Santa Sofia”
  • Portuguese: “Santa Sofia”
  • Pushto: “اياصوفيه”
  • Quechua: “Aya Sophiya”
  • Romanian: “Biserica Sfânta Sofia din Istanbul”
  • Romanian: “Catedrala Sfânta Sofia din Constantinopol”
  • Romanian: “Hagia Sofia din Istanbul”
  • Romanian: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Romanian: “Moscheea Ayasofya”
  • Russia Buriat: “Айя-София”
  • Russian: “Собор Святой Софии — Премудрости Божией”
  • Russian: “Собор Святой Софии”
  • Rusyn: “Храм Божой Премудрости”
  • Samogitian: “Suopėjės sobors”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Scots: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Serbian: “Аја Софија”
  • Serbian: “Велика џамија Аја Софија”
  • Serbian: “Премудрост Божија”
  • Serbian: “Света Софија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Aja Sofija”
  • Sinhala: “හජියා සොෆියා”
  • Slovak: “Hagia Sofia”
  • Slovenian: “Hagija Sofija”
  • Somali: “Ayaa sofiya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آیاصوفیا”
  • Spanish: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Spanish: “Santa Madre Sofia”
  • Spanish: “Santa Madre Sofía”
  • Spanish: “Santa Sofia”
  • Spanish: “Santa Sofía”
  • Sundanese: “Aya Sopia”
  • Swahili: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Swedish: “Hagia Sofia”
  • Swiss German: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Tagalog: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Tajik: “Айёсуфия”
  • Tamil: “ஹேகியா சோபியா”
  • Tatar: “Айя Суфия”
  • Thai: “ฮาเกียโซเฟีย”
  • Thai: “ฮายาโซฟีอา”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Turkish: “Aya Sofya”
  • Turkish: “Ayasofya Bazilikası”
  • Turkish: “Ayasofya Camii”
  • Turkish: “Ayasofya Katedrali”
  • Turkish: “Ayasofya Kilisesi”
  • Turkish: “Ayasofya Müzesi”
  • Turkish: “Ayasofya-i Kebîr Câmi-i Şerîfi”
  • Turkish: “Ayasofya-i Kebir Camii”
  • Turkish: “Ayasofya”
  • Turkish: “Ayasofyayı Kebir Camii Şerifi”
  • Turkish: “Azize Sofya Kilisesi”
  • Turkish: “Büyük Ayasofya Camii”
  • Turkish: “Kalın Minareler”
  • Turkish: “Kutsal Bilgelik Kilisesi”
  • Twi: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Udmurt: “Дун-сьӧлыктэм Софиялэн соборез”
  • Uighur: “ئاياسوڧيا”
  • Ukrainian: “Софіївський Собор”
  • Ukrainian: “Софійський собор”
  • Urdu: “آیا صوفیہ”
  • Urdu: “آیاصوفیا”
  • Urdu: “ایا صوفیا”
  • Urdu: “ایا صوفیہ”
  • Urdu: “ایاصوفیہ”
  • Uzbek: “Sofiya ibodatxonasi”
  • Vietnamese: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hagia Sophia”
  • Welsh: “Hagia Sophia”
  • Western Armenian: “Ս. Սոֆիա տաճար (Կ. Պոլիս)”
  • Western Armenian: “Ս. Սոֆիա տաճար”
  • Western Frisian: “Hagia Sofia (Istanbûl)”
  • Western Frisian: “Hagia Sofia”
  • Western Panjabi: “آیا صوفیا”
  • Wu Chinese: “圣索菲亚大教堂”
  • Yakut: “Айыы Суоппуйа собора”
  • Yiddish: “האגיא סאפיא”
  • Yue Chinese: “聖蘇菲亞大教堂”
  • “Ayasofya”
  • “Ayasofya-i Kebîr Câmi-i Şerîfi”
  • “Suopėjės sobors”
  • “tomo Aja Sopija”
  • “tomo Ajasopa”
  • “tomo Ajasopija”
  • “Ая София”

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