The official title of the Hagia Sophia as of July 2020 is the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque.

Sophia turkish name. Turkish flag in front of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul Turkey 2020. Turkish dance is one of the most lively and colorful themes of this picture. Finally it was named Hagia Sophia which is regarded as one of the names of God according to Christianity.

Aya Sophia Turkish Hagia Sophia Greek Aya Sophia was originally a Christian church at Constantinople now Istanbul later a mosque and now converted into a museum. Built 1500 years ago as an Orthodox Christian cathedral Hagia Sophia was converted into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest in 1453. However its function has changed.

It was built as a Christian church in the 6th century ce 532537 under the direction of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I. The Hagia Sophia originally a Byzantine church built in the sixth century and for a short period in the 13th century a Catholic church was converted into a mosque in 1453. Her name has become synonymous with Wisdom.

So now we see the New Age origins of Sophia. After the Turkish conquest it was converted into a mosque but continued to be known by the Turkish rendering of its Greek name Ayasofya. Or Ayasofya-I Kebir Cami-I Serifi in Turkish.

FILE - In this Friday July 10 2020 file photo a woman draped in a Turkish flag chants slogans outside the Byzantine-era Hagia Sophia one of Istanbuls main tourist attractions in the historic Sultanahmet district of Istanbul following Turkeys Council of States decision that paved the way for the landmark monument to be turned from a museum into a mosque. ANKARA Turkey AP Turkey on Thursday appointed appointed three imams for Hagia Sophia one of them a professor of religious studies as the nation prepares for the first Muslim prayers in. Hagia Sophia is a massive Byzantine Orthodox Christian Cathedral originally built in 537.

It was turned into an imperial mosque following the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453 and then turned into a museum in 1934 by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk the founder of the Turkish Republic. I feel this way for robots and humans alike When asked what shed name her daughter the robot said Sophia Sophia believes robots will one day be more ethical than humans. Horon is the name of a group of dances performed in Northern Turkey on the Black Sea Coast.