hagia sophia
Gothic glories
There can be no clearer illustration of the central role that great cathedrals continue to play in a nation’s life…
Keeping up with Jena set
Frances Wilson describes a group of self-obsessed intellectuals united by mutual loathing in a small university town in the 1790s
God’s architects
The surroundings of the Crimea Memorial Church in Istanbul are ‘little better than a dump’, wrote the British embassy chaplain…
Beyond belief
It’s a mistake to turn Hagia Sophia back into a mosque
