MOSCOW, July 15. /TASS/. Icons and frescos of Hagia Sophia will be preserved as they are despite the change in status, Turkish Ambassador to Russia Mehmet Samsar said in an interview with TASS.

Turkey to cover Hagia Sophia’s Christian icons during prayers. Governing party’s statement comes days after Ankara turned the iconic monument from a museum into a mosque.

Hagia Sophia will be "better preserved" following Turkey's decision to reconvert İstanbul's iconic architectural gem into a mosque after decades as a museum, the ruling Justice and Development Party's ...

Turkey's Hagia Sophia could 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 ...

Türkİye Turkish spokesman: Hagia Sophia icons to be preserved In interview, presidential spokesman rejects claims that reconversion into mosque will damage world historical heritage ...

Although it no longer functions as a church, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia, ... the stucco covering the Christian icons was removed for the first time in nearly 500 years, ...

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Karima Bennoune, a law professor, was appointed as Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights by the United Nations Human Rights Council in October 2015. She voiced her opinion on Hagia Sophia ...

The “Icons of Sound” project focuses on the interior of Hagia Sophia, using recordings of balloon pops taken in the space and other audio and visual research to figure out the building’s ...

The transformation of the Greek Hagia Sophia Cathedral into the Turkish Ayasofya Mosque did not take place gently. Fergus M. Bordewich describes the brutal shift that took place 564 years ago today: ...