The key monument of Byzantine architecture, originally a church, at Istanbul. Built by order of Justinian and inaugurated in 537, it was converted into a mosque after the Turkish invasion of 1453. In 1935 Atatürk declared it a museum.
圣索非亚教堂（拜占庭建筑风格的主要典范，原为伊斯坦布尔的教堂；根据查士丁尼的命令而建，537年竣工，1453年土耳其入侵后将其改为清真寺；1935年阿塔蒂尔克把它宣布为博物馆）。亦称 H AGIA S OPHIA ,S ANTA S OPHIA