By 
Kelly Wall
 | 
TED-Ed Original

It's a church. It's a mosque. It's Hagia Sophia.

If walls could talk Turkey's Hagia Sophia would have an abundance of stories to tell. Once a church then a mosque and now a museum this world marvel has stood the test of time and war surviving centuries of conquest by some of history's greatest empires. Kelly Wall takes us through the history of each layer of this great jewel of human desire.

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