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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 56. Chapters: 530, 530s architecture, 530s births, 530s deaths, 531, 532, 533, 534, 535, 536, 537, 538, 539, Hagia Sophia, Battle of Ad Decimum, Alboin, Taliesin, Battle of Tricamarum, Agathias, Siege of Rome, Extreme weather events of 535-536, Little Hagia Sophia, Vandalic War, Basilica Cistern, Guntram, Li Delin, Enda of Aran, Evagrius Scholasticus, Muirchertach mac Muiredaig, Battle of Dara, Hermogenes, Battle of Callinicum, Battle of Satala, Battle of Camlann, Eternal Peace, Acacius, Temple of the Six Banyan Trees, Pharas the Herulian, List of state leaders in 534, List of state leaders in 531, List of state leaders in 535, Council of Clermont, List of state leaders in 532, List of state leaders in 530, Dachi of Iberia, List of state leaders in 536, List of state leaders in 539, List of state leaders in 538, List of state leaders in 533, List of state leaders in 537, Battle of Shayuan. Excerpt: Hagia Sophia (from the Greek: , "Holy Wisdom"; Latin: or Sancta Sapientia; Turkish: ) is a former Orthodox patriarchal basilica, later a mosque, and now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey. From the date of its dedication in 360 until 1453, it served as the Greek Patriarchal cathedral of Constantinople, except between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted to a Roman Catholic cathedral under the Latin Patriarch of Constantinople of the Western Crusader established Latin Empire. The building was a mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931, when it was secularized. It was opened as a museum on 1 February 1935. The Church was dedicated to the Logos, the second person of the Holy Trinity, its dedication feast taking place on 25 December, the anniversary of the incarnation of the Logos in Christ. Although it is sometimes referred to as Sancta Sophia (as though it were named after Saint Sophia), sophia is the phonetic spelling in Latin of the Greek word for...
