Hagia Sophia
After the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople, Sultan Ahmed converted the city's Christian church to a mosque, removing or plastering over Christian icons and adding minarets a mihrab and other elements characteristic of Muslim mosques. The mosque was then used as Istanbul’s primary place of prayer for several decades until the completion of the Blue Mosque.
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