Transformations of Hagia Sophia

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: From Byzantine Church to Turkish Mosque to Twentieth-Century Museum: In seven pages this art history paper considers the three important transformations of the Hagia Sophia from a Byzantine Christian Church of the Holy Wisdom to an Islamic mosque after the 1453 Ottoman conquest, and finally secularized as an Istanbul museum in 1934. Seven sources are listed in the bibliography.