The present Ayasofya is the third building of the same name to be built in the same place. The first Great Church serving as the cathedral for Emperor Constantius (Istanbul used to be called Constantinople) was constructed in 360. A riot in 404 burned it down. It was reconstructed in 415 it survived until 532 when a citizen revolt razed it to the ground to make way for a new church,
Hagia Sofia meaning Holy Wisdom was completed in 537. The Ottoman Sultan, Mehmed converted it to a mosque in 1453. It became a museum in 1935.
The Sultan Ahmet Mosque, built in 1616 is more popularly known as the Blue Mosque due to the blue tiles adorning the walls inside. With a kneeling capacity of 10,000 and a height of 43m it was built on the site of the palace of the Byzantine emperors, in front of the basilica Ayasofya.
The design is the culmination of two centuries Ottoman mosque development and incorporates some Byzantine Christian elements of the adjacent Ayasofya with traditional islamic architecture such as minarets. It is considered to be the last great mosque of the classical period.
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