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Built in the 6th century during the reign of Emperor Justinianus, the most prosperous period of the East Roman Empire, the Basilica Cistern is 70m in width and 140m in lenght and supported by 336 marble columns. In 1985 the municipality of Istanbul undertook the restoration of the cistern.
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Blue Mosque was built on historical peninsula of İstanbul, in 1616 by Architect Sedefkar Mehmet Aga. The mosque is called “Blue Mosque” because of blue, gren and white colored Iznik chinas. When Hagia Sophia was turned into a museum from a mosque in 1934, Blue Mosque became the center mosque of İstanbul. With the complex [...]

Hagia Sophia was first named “Megale Ekklesia” (The Great Church) as it was the largest church in Constantinople (Istanbul today). The historian Socrates indicated that the church was named Sophia during the reign of Emperor Constantius. The name given to the church symbolized the second divine attribute of the Holy Trinity. Originally, Sophia, which means [...]