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MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's foreign minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya said on Monday it was important that Turkey's Hagia Sophia remains part of humanity's shared global heritage, after it was reconverted ...

The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey (2008) (all images by the author unless otherwise noted) I remember the first time I saw Hagia Sophia. It was almost too much to take in: the towering minarets, ...

This is "the tent of the heavens, which man, indeed, has set up, although God has surely taken part in the work," wrote Michael of Thessalonica, a 12th-century scribe, describing the Hagia Sophia, ...

Spain's foreign minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya said on Monday it was important that Turkey's Hagia Sophia remains part of humanity's shared global heritage, after it was reconverted into a mosque from ...