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Rick Steves Tours eBooks are straightforward, self-guided tours of some of Europes most popular museums, ancient buildings, and other points of interest, designed for easy reference on your mobile device or eReader. In Rick Steves Tour: Hagia Sophia, Istanbulfor less than the price of a cappuccinoRick shares his candid advice on how to get the most out of a visit to Hagia Sophia, including when to go, how much it costs, and whats worth your time once youre there. With Ricks knowledgeable, humorous writing in hand, youll also learn some interesting historical facts about the museum along the way. Packed with indispensable tips and recommendations from Americas expert on Europe, Rick Steves Tour: Hagia Sophia, Istanbul is a tour guide in your pocketand on your smartphone.
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Aya Sofya
For centuries, it was known as Megalo Ekklesia, the Great Church of Constantinople. The Greeks called it Hagia Sophia (eye-ah soh-fee-yah), meaning Divine Wisdom, an attribute of God. The Turkish version is Aya Sofya. But no matter what you call it, this placefirst a church, then a mosque, and now a museumis one of the most important and impressive structures on the planet.
Emperor Justinian built Hagia Sophia between A.D. 532 and 537. For 900 years, it served as the seat of the Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinoplethe eastern Vatican. Replete with shimmering mosaics and fine marble, Hagia Sophia was the single greatest architectural achievement of the Byzantine Empire.
When the Ottomans took Constantinople in 1453, Sultan Mehmet the Conquerorimpressed with the Great Churchs beautyconverted it into an imperial mosque. Hagia Sophia remained Istanbuls most important mosque for five centuries. In the early years of the Turkish Republic (1930s), Hagia Sophia was converted again, this time into a museum. It retains unique elements of both the Byzantine and Ottoman empires and their respective religions, Orthodox Christianity and Islam. In a sense, Hagia Sophia is Istanbul in architectural form: ancient, grand, gigantic, with some rough edges, but on the whole remarkably preserveda fascinating, still-vigorous blend of East and West.
Cost: 20 TL covers the entire museum, including the upper galleries. Unless the other windows are closed, avoid the right-hand ticket window, which is reserved for tour guides with groups.
Hours: Tue-Sun 9:00-19:00 in summer, until 17:00 off-season; temporary exhibits and the upper galleries close 30 minutes earlier, closed Mon. Last entry one hour before closing.
When to Go: Try to avoid Tuesdays in peak season, when Topkap Palace is closed, and Hagia Sophia gets even more crowded.
Getting There: Hagia Sophia is in the Sultanahmet neighborhood in the heart of the Old Town, facing the Blue Mosque. The main entrance is at the southwest corner of the giant building, across the busy street with the tram tracks (Divan Yolu). If you arrive by tram, get off at the Sultanahmet stop, and walk a couple hundred yards downhill along Divan Yolu. Cross the wide street at the traffic light.
Getting In: A crowd generally gathers just before 9:00 outside the ticket office and rushes the doors when they open, so arrive at 9:15 to miss the mob. If youre early and also have the Underground Cistern in your plans, go there first (the cistern is across the street with the tram tracksdescribed in the Historic Core of Istanbul Walk chapter). Guided tours often bunch up at Hagia Sophias security checkpoint and ticket-taker. Be patientthe logjam usually clears quickly.
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