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Hagia Sophia, completed in 537 AD, took 5 years and 10 months. It is one of the best examples of Byzantine architecture. Later, due to the change of history, Sultan Mehmet II turned the cathedral into a mosque, so the locals kindly called it "Aya Sophia Mosque." After becoming a mosque, we built four minarets that we now see. Although the four minarets look different, they are all called to summon believers to come to worship. The low-profile Hagia Sophia hides the inner things that make you marvel. Its beyond imagination. When you step in, look up, God! ! ! Crazy architecture, exquisite, vast, mysterious, and a little bit of Gothic little gloomy. I like this church too much, even though it is now a mosque, but the predecessor is still a church! Here, for the first time I associate heaven, reincarnation, wings and God.
Posted: Nov 29, 2018
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