Hagia Sophia

English

Hagia Sophia today

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek and Ancient Greek Ἁγία Σοφία (Hagía Sophía, “Holy Wisdom”). Compare Sofia, Sophia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑːɡiə soʊˈfiə/

Proper noun

Hagia Sophia

1. A mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, (historical) the former patriarchal church of Greek Orthodoxy, operated as a museum 1935–2020.

Synonyms

• Great Church, Agia Sofia (modern Greek), Aya Sofya (Turkish)

Translations

a former basilica, now a mosque in Turkey

• Albanian: Ajasofja, Shën Sofia
• Arabic: آيَا صُوفِيَا (ʔāyā ṣūfiyā)
• Bulgarian: Света София (Sveta Sofija)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 聖蘇菲亞大教堂 / 圣苏菲亚大教堂 (sing³ sou¹ fei¹ aa³ daai⁶ gaau³ tong⁴)

  Mandarin: 圣索菲亚大教堂 (Shèng Suǒfēiyà Dàjiàotáng)

• Danish: Hagia Sophia
• Finnish: Hagia Sofia
• Georgian: აია-სოფია (aia-sopia)
• German: Hagia Sophia (de)
• Greek: Αγία Σοφία (el) (Agía Sofía)
• Hungarian: Hagia Szophia
• Icelandic: Ægisif
• Japanese: ハギアソフィア大聖堂 (Hagiasofia taiseidō)
• Latin: Sancta Sapientia, Hagia Sophia
• Persian: ایاصوفیه
• Polish: Hagia Sofia
• Portuguese: Hagia Sofia f
• Russian: Собо́р Свято́й Софи́и m (Sobór Svjatój Sofíi)
• Serbo-Croatian: Aja Sofija (sh)
• Spanish: Santa Sofía
• Swedish: Hagia Sofia
• Tamil: ஹேகியா சோபியா (hēkiyā cōpiyā)
• Thai: สุเหร่าโซเฟีย (sùrào sohfia)
• Turkish: Aya Sofya
• Turkmen: Aýasofýa
• Ukrainian: Софійський собор (Sofijsʹkyj sobor)
• Urdu: ایاصوفیہ (eāsofeh)
• Vietnamese: Hagia Sophia