Turkey in Transition: turkey04

ISTANBUL, TURKEY.  Visitors are seen on the upper level of the Aya Sofya, formerly Hagia Sophia which was converted from church to mosque with the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453, on December 21, 2011.

ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Visitors are seen on the upper level of the Aya Sofya, formerly Hagia Sophia which was converted from church to mosque with the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453, on December 21, 2011.