Imagine the walls that have soaked up 1600 years of history in one of Constantinople’s most important Byzantine monasteries, ...

At the heart of Venice’s globally renowned St. Mark's Square sits Biblioteca Marciana, a library filled with the ghosts of a ...

Constantinople was officially renamed Istanbul by Atatürk’s government, capping a campaign begun in 1916 by Enver Pasha that ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

As the parodies of peace negotiations between Russia, Ukraine and America continue—most recently marked by the failed attempt to bring Putin and Zelenskyy together in Istanbul—Pope Leo XIV ...

The journey to Nicaea for the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea is expected to be the first international trip of ...

When Robert Prevost was elected pope this week, he chose one of the most popular papal names. The lives of the Pope Leos who ...

Today’s Turkey is a melting pot of 20 or so ethnic groups and styles from the very traditional to the very latest ...

Throughout its centuries-long existence, the Hagia Sophia has been a place of worship for many different religions and ...

The current Hagia Sophia was built in the 6th century when Constantinople — as Istanbul was then called — was the heart of the Orthodox Christian Byzantine Empire that emerged as Ancient Rome ...