The court ruling overturns a 1934 government decree, which converted Istanbul's religious monument into a museum Joelle Goldstein is a Senior News Editor on the TV team for PEOPLE Digital. She has ...

The Mini Turkey Park (Miniaturk), Istanbul's first miniature park, attracts the attention of thousands of tourists from across the world by displaying all periods and locations of Anatolia and ...

It was the towering seat of Byzantine Christianity for 900 years and the seat of the Islamic world for 500 more. Nowadays, Hagia Sophia in Istanbul attracts millions of visitors each year. But a ...

Istanbul is a city like no other, sitting on two continents: Europe and Asia. The Bosphorus Strait splits it, linking the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. Its skyline is filled with minarets and ...

Sara Tendulkar loves to travel, and her Instagram photos are proof. The celebrity recently shared a throwback snippet of her trip to Istanbul. Earlier this year, Sara went on a girl's trip with her ...

Thanks to politics and the passage of time, grand monuments of the 1,000-year Byzantine Empire are easy to miss in the modern metropolis. Tourists take photographs in the Byzantine-era Chora Church, ...

Turkey's president has signed a decree to formally turn the Hagia Sophia into a mosque - a move which threatens to upset Christians around the world. The monument in Istanbul has been a disputed ...

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A historian discusses the significance of Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque. Two of Istanbul’s top tourist destinations are also two of the city’s most important religious monuments: Hagia Sophia and ...