Hagia Sophia (Istanbul, Turkey)
The Church of the Holy Wisdom, known as Hagia Sophia (Άγια Σοφία in Greek, Sancta Sophia in Latin, and Ayasofya or Aya Sofya in Turkish), is a former Byzantine church and former Ottoman mosque in Istanbul. In 1935, president and founder of the Republic of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, transformed …