Hagia Sophia

English

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek and Ancient Greek Ἁγία Σοφία (Hagía Sophía, “Holy Wisdom”). Compare Sofia, Sophia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhɑːɡiə soʊˈfiə/

Proper noun

Hagia Sophia

  1. A mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, (historical) the former patriarchal church of Greek Orthodoxy, operated as a museum 1935–2020.

Synonyms

Translations

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.