{"id":3773,"date":"2010-03-29T10:31:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T10:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abcplanet.com\/cheap-hotel-near-saint-sophia-istanbul-turkey\/"},"modified":"2010-03-29T10:31:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T10:31:06","slug":"cheap-hotel-near-saint-sophia-istanbul-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/?p=3773","title":{"rendered":"One of the greatest surviving examples of Byzantine architecture?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Hagia-_Sophia-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10204 alignleft\" title=\"Hagia _Sophia\" src=\"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Hagia-_Sophia-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Hagia _Sophia\" width=\"220\" height=\"148\" \/><\/a>Hagia Sophia<\/strong> is one of the greatest surviving examples of Byzantine architecture. <strong>A former Orthodox patriarchal basilica, later a mosque, now a museum<\/strong>. The current building was <strong>originally constructed as a church between 532 and 537 CE<\/strong> on the orders of the<strong> Byzantine Emperor Justinian<\/strong>. For almost 500 years the principal mosque of Istanbul, Hagia Sophia served as a model for many of the Ottoman mosques. In 1935, Mustafa Kemal Atat\u00fcrk, transformed it into a museum, the marble floor decorations and the mosaics appeared for the first time in centuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hagia Sophia is one of the greatest surviving examples of Byzantine architecture. A former Orthodox patriarchal basilica, later a mosque, now a museum. The current building was originally constructed as a church between 532 and 537 CE on the orders of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian. For almost 500 years the principal mosque of Istanbul, Hagia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[823,12],"tags":[998,163,999,164],"class_list":["post-3773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church","category-museums","tag-hagia-sofia","tag-istanbul","tag-saint-sophia","tag-turkey","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}