Hagia Sophia, İznik
The Hagia Sophia at Nicaea is a Byzantine-era church in Nicaea in Turkey.
The church of Hagia Sophia was built by Justinian I in the middle of the city in the 6th century. It was in this building that the Second Council of Nicaea met in 787 to end the first period of Byzantine Iconoclasm.
A timber-roofed basilica with a central nave and side aisles, it was built shortly after 1065, but extensively remodelled after its conversion into a mosque. Before the remodelling it had two rows of triple arcades on columns that carried a clerestory wall with five windows.
It was converted to a mosque after the fall of the city to the Ottoman Turks in 1337, and functioned as such until it was converted into a museum in 1935. In November 2011 it was again converted into a mosque.Gallery
