Hagia Sophia: A Lie That Wouldn't Die : vimarsana.com

There is no evidence of Mehmet ‘the Conqueror’ ever having purchased the Hagia Sophia Church. On the contrary, all primary and secondary sources agree on churches being taken by force, pillaged, burned, and converted to mosques

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