Dan416
Senior Member
To be fair, it was a church, then a mosque, and now a museum. And, maybe I'm just used to seeing it this way, but I don't mind the minarets.
Although here's an artist's depiction of what Hagia Sophia would have looked like when it was a church:
Without the minarets, it does look very similar to this Coptic Church.
Although here's an artist's depiction of what Hagia Sophia would have looked like when it was a church:
![Hagia_Sophia_BW.jpg](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Hagia_Sophia_BW.jpg)
Without the minarets, it does look very similar to this Coptic Church.
![3397449104_cabb6dc6fc_b.jpg](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3588/3397449104_cabb6dc6fc_b.jpg)