One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

Study details fifth- to ninth-century conversion of a Second Temple tomb into a worship site, complete with apse, altar and ...

An ancient Christian mosaic from Israel is on public display for the first time at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. The sprawling Megiddo Mosaic was discovered in 2005 during a prison ...

At that time: Jesus said, 'My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they ...

The subject matter and style of the mosaic are so similar to the Christian mosaics from Hinton St. Mary and Frampton in Dorset, that they may all have been the work of the same mosaic craftsmen ...

It has a unique collection of early Christian mosaics and monuments. All eight buildings – the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, the Neonian Baptistery, the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, the Arian ...

The art inside the building is a testament to coexistence. There is no other place on Earth where Christian mosaics of saints and Byzantine rulers are juxtaposed with Islamic calligraphy ...