Santa Sofía Reviews

The unique history of this place is well worth the visit

Great place to visit. Especially during extra hot days

Best to go early before the crowd as the queues can get long and there is little shade

Words cannot describe this place and it is included in museum pass

the Greatest historical place I have visited.
A mosquee whith huge doors and openings and medieval aspects.

It was a great experience to visit this great place

all the history some items since 1400 years ago

Highly recommend going here and I suggest you go with one of the numerous tour guides that are outside the gates claiming they can get you in avoiding the line. My friend and I were sceptical at first (not wanting to be scammed) but the person who got us in was the best tour guide I ve ever had and was able to get us through avoiding the line.

A place that holds thousand years plus of history in itself! It has been a church for 916 years and a mosque for 482 years. Hagia Sofia!

A beautiful place to visit but restoring inside so it was little bit disappointing. It was much quieter last time I was visiting. Get there early in the moring, 9 AM at least, to avoid a long queue. Same with the palace. There are so many people squeeze in this you have to wait lot longer, at least more than an hour to get in. So irritating to see all those chicky people, mainly Moslem people. Am not trying to discriminate them but telling the truth.

Very beautiful mosque I dream see hagia sofia comming soon inshallah love from

Was great, but tood bad it's going through renovation on the inside.

Wonderful place and long queue to enter the museum..

BEAUTIFUL!! Would love to see it when the renovation are complete.

it is a historical place with lot of icons from christian and islamic religion a must see

Beautiful and amazing. Also known as Ayasophia or santasophia

Nice historical place, still there is a construction going on inside

Hagia Sophia will be return to Orthodox Christians. Ordx Christians are brothers of Muslim. Have patient !

Hagia Sophia, one of the Wonders of the World... I had some high expectations going in. So I bought the ticket for 40 lira, joined the crowds entering and was a tad disappointed. It s a beautiful building with so much history behind it... it s absolutely worths seeing, bo doubt about it... it just might not be one of the Wonders of the World today.

Great amazing historical place, I hope they'll finish the construction very soon so people can appreciate the beauty of the place

It would be lovely, if there was no contraction inside. Yet it is a great place. And must be on the visit lists.

Magnificent building, sadly half of it in restoration process, but never mind you can appreciate the building either way, and its amazing construction work.

See amazing buildings and feel history between your hands

One of the best Islam historical place in world. An evidece one of the greatest muslim history

The most spectacular museum in Istanbul. Fabulous architecture for building year. Crowded but you must to go there.

Amazing to find out soo much about this place that never knew before

Museum is closed to visiting on Mondays..! Well then, going back on next day

Not recommend, No thing is interest with high price ticket 6 Turkish liar for adult

Truely amazed how two religions can co exist in one place..algamdulila

Amazing historical significance tickets for entry 72 TL

ancient church/mosque still standing after 1500 or so years

A great monument of history with traces of different rulers and civilizations that lived around it. A holy place for different religions, now a well maintained museum.

In one word Hagia Sophia in itself is a very rich history book. It use to be a church and then once Muslim leaders started ruling Turkey it was converted into Mosque.
It was church for approximately 500 years and then Mosque for another approx 500 years.
This place is so beautiful and I couldn t stop mesmerising ever since i visited this beautiful and peaceful place.
The mosaic art of Jesus is so beautiful that i couldn t take my eyes of it and so are Muslim calligraphy. The colors, the art and the chandeliers, everything is so beautiful.
I loved visiting Hagia Sophia and I would say its a must do!

A total must see. The place was still under renovations though. So missed out on seeing a few things. Don't miss this when you stop off at Istanbul. It took us about 3 hours to complete what was there (we walk around slowly)

Great
A rich and valuable heritage

We visited St Sophia a month a ago. Astonishing building! it preserves all christian characteristics from Byzantine empire until today!

Good place for sight seeing.. u will see marvellous sculptures. U can hire a person or book for voice help on mobile.

Original church completed arround 550 AD, incredible!

Amazing experience. Beautiful preservation of Muskim and Christian history. A very spiritual experience

Beautiful museum! The connection between Christianity and Islam makes it very special!

Fantastic space could have spent most of the day there.

Absolutely fantastic. Unbelievable how they built it in the ancient times.

The Hagia Sophia is a beautiful historical building which is not to be missed during a tour of Istanbul! It is currently being restored and I am sure that when the whole dome is visible it must be awe-inspiring. I found that there was less information available than in other attractions like Topkapi, so I think it would be worthwhile to get an audio guide our tour guide. We bought the museum pass that allowed us to see Topkapi, Hagia Sophia and several other museums. It was well worth the cost when we could skip the queues at each place. Definitely invest in one, especially if you are visiting in summer for a few days.

So much history and charm in one place! Kemal was right to make it a museum and that still is. Real monument to power of religion as a tool of the rulers. All in all a must see!

Better to go earlier in the day to avoid long queues.

Hagia Sophia (/ h i so fi /; from the Greek ` , pronounced [ha ia so fia], 'Holy Wisdom'; Latin: Sancta Sophia or Sancta Sapientia; Turkish: Ayasofya) is the former Greek Orthodox Christian patriarchal cathedral, later an More

Beautiful museum with rich history..must visit place when you are in Istanbul.

Huge and magnificent. Sadly the frescoes are in quite poor condition due to damage. There was a construction inside, for the reconstruction was going on, but it is apparently happening quite slowly since my cousin was there 2 years ago and the construction site was at almost the same spot.

Just amazing. A place you just hav to visit once in a lifetime.