Turkey's Hagia Sophia will open to visitors outside prayer times and its Christian icons will remain, religious officials said on Tuesday, after a court ruling paved the way for it to become a mosque.

This structure is about the same age as the Hagia Sophia and was integral to Istanbul's water supply and distribution, even for the city's palaces. Its opulent columns which reflect on the shallow ...

Hagia Sophia is a former Patriarchal Orthodox Cathedral ... It was used to store a reserve of drinking water in case of ...