Sunday, April 28, 2019

ORHAN PAMUK’S ISTANBUL -- 14

NEW YORK TIMES WORDS/STEVE WRIGHT IMAGES
Across the inlet, in stunning contrast to the scruffy surroundings, rose the silver dome of Hagia Sophia, wreathed in limestone and sandstone minarets. 

Built as a Greek Orthodox basilica and opened in A.D. 537 and converted into a mosque after the 1453 Islamic conquest of Constantinople, it was secularized by Kemal Ataturk, modern Turkey’s founder, and turned into a museum in 1935.

-Joshua Hammer

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