Place Institution Christianity
Hagia Sophia
Aedes Sanctae Sophiae la آيا صوفيا ar ایاصوفیه fa
Mosque, museum, and former church in Istanbul, Turkey
- Dated from 23 February 532 CE
- Also called Santa Sophia, St. Sophia Basilica, Church of Saint Sophia
Figures
Associated figures
Gods and people named with this place — as its founders, or in their own records.
What this means
Founders are named by this place's own record, and a founding is an attribution, often contested. The rest are read from the other end, computed from their records rather than this one. Being named with a place is not being documented there in any given year.
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Constantine the GreatNamed as founder Roman emperor from 306 to 337 and first to convert to Christianity (272–337)
Site history & evidence
What is documented here
Each kind of evidence on its own row, because they do not add up.
| Evidence | On record | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| Site date | Dated from 23 February 532 CE On the timeline | Sources also record an earlier building’s end, before this start. It is left out rather than drawn backwards. A date for the site as recorded — not the start of worship, and not a floor on the tradition here. |
| Location | Recorded to the site On the atlas | A coordinate for the place. It locates the site; it does not draw its extent. |
| Dated activity | None recorded | A pin is a place, not an event. What happened at Hagia Sophia, and when, is a separate claim, and this import holds none: it carries site locations, not dated activity. |
Nearby
Places nearby
The nearest this collection holds, measured between recorded coordinates.
What this means
Computed from coordinates, not stated by any source. Nearness is geometry, not a connection: two sites a kilometre apart may never have shared a worshipper, a tradition or a century. Where either coordinate is recorded only to a district, the distance is rounded and says “about”.
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under 1 km awayHagia Irene
Byzantine church building in Istanbul, Turkey now a hall and museum -
under 1 km awayZeynep Sultan Mosque
mosque -
under 1 km awayFiruz Ağa Mosque
mosque in Turkey -
under 1 km awayChurch of the Virgin of the Pharos
church building in İstanbul, Turkey -
under 1 km awaySultan Ahmed Mosque
historic mosque located in Istanbul, Turkey, also known as Blue Mosque -
under 1 km awayHodegon Monastery
historic monastery in Constantinople -
under 1 km awayConstantinople
capital of the Eastern Roman, Latin and Ottoman Empires, currently Istanbul, Turkey -
under 1 km awayBet Avraam Synagogue
synagogue in Istanbul, Turkey
Connections
How Hagia Sophia connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 5
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply that no other tradition uses the site · use in every period · personal belief at every point in a life · the practice of a population
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Place 5
What this means
Where something is, or is documented. A location is not by itself evidence of activity.
Does not imply that anything is documented to have happened there
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- is located in Cankurtaran mahalle (administrative quarter) in Fatih, İstanbul–Europe, northwestern Turkey
- is located in Fatih district of İstanbul, northwestern Turkey
- is located in Istanbul largest city in Turkey
- is located in Istanbul Province province in northwestern Turkey
- is located in Sultan Ahmet mahalle (administrative quarter) in Fatih, İstanbul–Europe, northwestern Turkey
Recorded events and days 2
What this means
Events Wikidata records in a subject’s history, and the day a festival is kept. Not a complete history, and the day a festival falls on is not when it began.
Does not imply that these are all the events in its history · that Wikidata ranks the events by importance
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
18 statements on this record
- 1 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 17 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 8 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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