Hagia Sophia (disambiguation)
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Hagia Sophia is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Istanbul, Turkey. It was built in 537 as the Greek Orthodox patriarchal cathedral, later becoming a Roman Catholic cathedral, then a Sunni mosque, then a museum. It currently functions as a mosque.
Hagia Sophia or Saint Sophia may also refer to:
- The Greek for Holy Wisdom, a concept in Christian theology
Churches[edit]
Australia[edit]
- Saint Sophia Cathedral, Sydney (1928), a Greek Orthodox cathedral in Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales
- St Sophia Greek Orthodox Church (c. 1980s), a Greek Orthodox church in Surry Hills, Sydney, New South Wales
Belarus[edit]
- Saint Sophia Cathedral in Polotsk (11th century), a cathedral in Polotsk
Bulgaria[edit]
- Saint Sofia Church, Sofia (6th century), a church in Sofia
- Hagia Sophia Church, Nesebar (9th century), a church in Nesebar
China[edit]
- Saint Sophia Cathedral, Harbin (1907), a church in Daoli, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province
Cyprus[edit]
- Saint Sophia Cathedral, Nicosia (11th century), a former church in Nicosia; now a mosque since 1570
Greece[edit]
- Hagia Sophia (8th century), a church in Thessaloniki
- Hagia Sophia (10th century), a church in Drama
- Hagia Sophia (12th century), a church in Monemvasia
- Hagia Sophia (14th century), a church in Mystras
North Macedonia[edit]
- Saint Sophia, Ohrid (9th century), a church in Ohrid
Russia[edit]
- Saint Sophia Church, Moscow (17th century), a church in Moscow
- Nikolskaya Church (1813), a church in Kamenki, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
- Saint Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod (11th century), a church in Novgorod
- St. Sophia Cathedral, Pushkin (1788), a cathedral in Pushkin, St Petersburg
- Saint Sophia Cathedral, Vologda (1570), a Russian Orthodox cathedral in Vologda
Turkey[edit]
- Little Hagia Sophia (6th century), originally a church in Constantinople, now a mosque
- Hagia Sophia, Iznik (6th century), originally a church in Nicaea, now a mosque
- Hagia Sophia, Trabzon (13th century), originally a church in Trabzon, now a mosque
Ukraine[edit]
- Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv (11th century), a cathedral in Kiev
- Saint Sophia Cathedral, Zhytomyr (1748), a cathedral in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr
United Kingdom[edit]
- Saint Sophia (London) (1882), a cathedral in London
United States[edit]
- Saint Sophia (Los Angeles) (1952), a cathedral in Los Angeles
- St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral (1948), a cathedral in Miami
- Saint Sophia Cathedral (Washington, D.C.) (1951), a cathedral in Washington, D.C.
Other uses[edit]
- SS Sussex, an 1896 cross-English Channel passenger ferry also known as Aghia Sophia