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Online casino play may not exactly mean physical traveling. But think of online casino play as an exercise in imaginative travel. You can travel to wherever in the world you want without ever leaving your own home or your own desk. It's all up to you here.
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No visit to Turkey could ever be complete without a visit to the Hagia Sophia, which is both at the same time – one of the world's greatest churches and mosques. Yes, the Hagia Sophia of Constantinople (present day Istanbul) pays obeisance to two religions, but it has a more checkered history than that. Beginning as a pagan temple, the Hagia Sophia became the largest churches in the world during the Byzantine Empire and it ruled at that spot for well over a thousand years. During the Medieval Period, Constantinople was ravaged by the Ottoman Turks and the church was converted into a mosque. Both as a church as well as a mosque, Hagia Sophia stood at the top of the respective religious worlds. It was only in the last century that this church/mosque was converted into a museum and opened to tourists from all over the world.
The date of inauguration of the Hagia Sophia is put as 360 AD.
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That means this structure is standing since more than 1600 years, clearly qualifying as an old world marvel. And the monument has seen it all – mobs, plundering tribes and Emperor, ravages of climate, earthquakes and even finicky whims of royalty. It has undergone at least five major renovations in its history, and still the form it is presently standing in bespeaks of all the old world charm of the two major world religions it honors.
The Hagia Sophia has wonderful things to see as a museum. It has some of the world's best mosaics in Christendom, and some of the grandest opulence of Islamic prayer structures. Its name Hagia Sophia literally means Holy Wisdom, and you can clearly find this serene wisdom permeating through each of the corridors of this large church/mosque.
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