Agia Sofia

In 1205, when the Fourth Crusade captured the city, the Hagia Sophia was converted into the cathedral of Thessaloniki, which it remained after the city was returned to the Byzantine Empire in 1246. After the capture of Thessaloniki by the Ottoman Sultan Murad II on 29 March 1430, the church was converted into a mosque. It was reconverted to a church upon the liberation of Thessaloniki in 1912.

In the 8th century, the present structure was erected, based on the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul, Turkey).

6th Intercultural Primary school of Evosmos, Thessaloniki

Athanasia NaskoudiMaria Krintzali

AGIA SOFIATHESSALONIKI

Interior of the Church of Agia Sofia, Thessaloniki

Agia Sophia of Thessaloniki animation

Since the 3rd century, there was a church in the location of the current Hagia Sophia.