Hagia Sophia
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Nov 02, 2025 08:56 PM
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History
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paleochristian
A major paleochristian, then Byzantine, church in Istanbul; subsequently an Islamic mosque, and today a museum.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/307220778
41.008548, 28.979938
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery Location of Hagia Sophia (30 BC - Present) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- آیاصوفیا (Ayaṣofya: Ottoman Turkish, AD 1300 - AD 1923)
- St. Sophia (English, AD 1700 - AD 1799)
- Hagia Sophia located at Constantinopolis (unspecified date range)
- Great Palace of Constantinople abuts Hagia Sophia (AD 300 - AD 1200)
church, mosque
Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Brady Kiesling, Nir Shafir, Tom Elliott, and Enes Yılandiloğlu, 'Hagia Sophia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/307220778> [accessed: 12 February 2026]
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