Late Middle Ages · Middle East · Religion
1453
Hagia Sophia Converted to Mosque
1453
On the afternoon of Constantinople's fall, Mehmed II entered Hagia Sophia, walked across its marble floor covered in blood and frightened refugees, and ordered an imam to chant the call to prayer from the pulpit. The Byzantine cathedral that had stood since 537 became a mosque, its mosaics plastered, its cross lowered.
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Also in 1453 (3 other events on record)
- Fall of Constantinople · Middle East · War
- Siege of Constantinople Begins · Middle East · War
- Battle of Castillon · Europe · War
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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