{"id":5459,"date":"2026-06-25T11:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/from-hagia-sophia-to-suleymaniye-mosque-istanbul-civilisations-bbc\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T11:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:33:19","slug":"from-hagia-sophia-to-suleymaniye-mosque-istanbul-civilisations-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/from-hagia-sophia-to-suleymaniye-mosque-istanbul-civilisations-bbc\/","title":{"rendered":"From Hagia Sophia to Suleymaniye Mosque, Istanbul | Civilisations &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G2rePZHydl8?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Subscribe and \ud83d\udd14 to the BBC \ud83d\udc49 https:\/\/bit.ly\/BBCYouTubeSub<br \/>\nWatch the BBC first on iPlayer \ud83d\udc49 https:\/\/bbc.in\/iPlayer-Home Programme website: http:\/\/bbc.in\/2pqujn1 In Ottoman Istanbul the great engineer-architect Mimar Sinan had built the light-flooded Suleymaniye mosque, after the conversion of Hagia Sophia from church to mosque wasn&#8217;t good enough.<\/p>\n<p>#bbc<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G2rePZHydl8\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subscribe and \ud83d\udd14 to the BBC \ud83d\udc49 https:\/\/bit.ly\/BBCYouTubeSub Watch the BBC first on iPlayer \ud83d\udc49 https:\/\/bbc.in\/iPlayer-Home Programme website: http:\/\/bbc.in\/2pqujn1 In Ottoman Istanbul the great engineer-architect Mimar Sinan had built the light-flooded Suleymaniye mosque, after the conversion of Hagia Sophia from church to mosque wasn&#8217;t good enough. #bbc source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":5460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10757,3943,15,55,3954,1264,54,3937,10750,8682,10754,3934,10749,493,3950,10751,10756,3958,3953,3938,43,1688,10746,3935,3949,3936,1855,10759,10753,813,38,10748,10755,6744,33,3947,2069,3952,10758,10752,1207,289,7113,10747,3951,3944],"class_list":["post-5459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-architecture","tag-art-in-history","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-2","tag-bbc-arts","tag-bbc-two","tag-bbc2","tag-beauty","tag-byzantine","tag-christian","tag-churches","tag-civilisations","tag-constantinople","tag-culture","tag-david-olusoga","tag-faith","tag-hagia-sophia","tag-human-history","tag-human-life","tag-ingenuity","tag-iplayer","tag-islam","tag-istanbul","tag-kenneth-clark","tag-mary-beard","tag-masterworks","tag-middle-east","tag-mimar-sinan","tag-mosques","tag-museum","tag-muslim","tag-ottoman-empire","tag-places-of-worship","tag-power","tag-religion","tag-renaissances","tag-roman","tag-simon-schama","tag-suleiman","tag-suleymaniye-mosque","tag-tourism","tag-travel","tag-turkey","tag-turks","tag-vision","tag-world-of-art","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}