A Church Became a Mosque Became a Museum Became a Mosque

A church became a mosque became a museum became a mosque — and one dome watched it all for fifteen hundred years. This is the Hagia Sophia: born in the fire of the Nika riots in 532, rebuilt by Justinian with a dome that seemed to hang from heaven, stripped by the Fourth Crusade, turned mosque by Mehmed the Conqueror in 1453, made a museum by Atatürk in 1934, and a mosque a …