Little Hagia Sophia, Istanbul

One of the many little wonders of Istanbul. A peaceful mosque located around 800m from the blue mosque and surrounded by a lot of cafes and restaurants. The mosque itself has a little cafe/library and has a lot of friendly cats!

It's a graceful Masjid having similarities with Hagia Sofia Masjid. It's well maintained and in a very good condition. There is a garden in front of it which is famous for home made tea.

Great history and worth to see it but the location is not very convenient if you will go from the top to the bottom and climb it up again. Need to make appropriate route. Lovely and quiet place by the way. Mosque in the same style as Hagia Sophia and deserved it’s name as a Little Hagia Sophia

Very nice calm masjid near the Sea of Marmara. Little Hagia Sophia, built between 532 and 536, used to be an a Othodox Church but was converted into a masjid during the Ottoman Empire.

This tiny mosque, a former byzantine church, is located in a potentially beautiful area, somehow spoiled by dilapidated buildings, a familiar sight in İstanbul. The story goes that the architects that would eventually build St. Sophia experimented here with the seemingly unsupported central dome, hence the name “Little Hagia Sophia (Küçük Ayasofya)”. İt’s renovated, but not much from the original decoration survive, possibly buried under plaster; it still displays beautiful columns with elaborated capitals and a greek carved epigram dedicated to Justinian and Theodora, the commisioners.