Hagia Sophia
Inside the marvel of architecture Hagia Sophia (pronounced Ahya sOfiya). The most surprising things is that most of the building, some of the icons and the mosaics have survived, proving in a way that re-branding is all we need, tolerance or not. Jerusalem is another example of such successful re-branding, the city that everyone claims to be their own... New York, the old New Amsterdam, may become such New Jerusalem...
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You must have been to both Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque - they are so close by and as if challenging each other. Which one did you prefer - the vernacular Sophia or the pious mosque? I felt more at ease in the former :)
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