By The Mouth of Evliya Celebi Hagia Sophia

One of them is, of course, the world’s biggest traveller Evliya Çelebi (1611-1682)

The other one is the symbol of the conquest of Istanbul, the Hagia Sophia, which this traveller desciribed in his Seyahatname (the book of Travel) as *the Mecca of Christians*. Both are full of mysteries; both have been researched a lot, written a lot and told a lot. And there is also that Evliya Celebi tells about Hagia Sophia in a more different way than anyone else has done…

To read Seyyah-ı Alem’s (The Traveller of the World) Seyahatname means to ben friends with our great traveller prior to 400 years, to make a journey to that and previosu period