Hagia Sophia Exterior
photoA view of looking west at the east (apse) end of the Hagia Sophia Church.
Justinian built the church in Nicea in the sixth century A.D. Sultan Orhangazi turned it into a mosque in 1331.
In modern times the church/mosque was turned into a "museum" but more recently restored as a mosque.
The Seventh Ecumenical Council convened here in A.D. 787—the one that restored the veneration of icons in churches.
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