All Stories: Hagia Sophia

President Erdogan and PM Khan exchanged good wishes for the nationals of both countries on the occasion of Eidul Fitr festival.

Erdogan joined thousands of worshippers at Hagia Sophia for the first prayers there since he declared the monument a mosque once again.

"Hagia Sophia will not be called a museum. It will be taken out of that status. We will call Hagia Sophia a mosque," Erdogan told A Haber television during an interview.

ISTANBUL: Thousands of Muslim worshippers descended Saturday on Istanbul's world famous Hagia Sophia, the towering former Byzantine church that is now a museum, to demand the right to pray there, Turkish media reported.

ISTANBUL: A Muslim cleric has for the first time in 85 years recited the Holy Quran in the Hagia Sophia, the world famous landmark of Istanbul which is now a museum after serving as a church and a mosque, reports said Saturday.