Landmarks & buildings

Hagia Sophia

Mosque, museum, and former church in Istanbul, Turkey

Turkey · 41.0083, 28.9800

1 film or series was filmed at Hagia Sophia. Wikipedia names 6 more.

Hagia Sophia
Photo: Arild Vågen · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Movies filmed at Hagia Sophia

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Wikipedia says these were filmed in Hagia Sophia too. Each title’s page links to the sentence that says so.

Filming locations nearby

What Wikipedia says about Hagia Sophia

2 sentences quoted word for word from Wikipedia, each with the production it describes and a link to the article it comes from.

  • From Russia with Love 1963

    “Red Grant was added to the Istanbul scenes just prior to the film crew's trip to Turkey; this brought more focus to the SPECTRE plot, as Grant started saving Bond's life there (a late change during shooting involved Grant killing the bespectacled spy at Hagia Sophia instead of Bond, who ends up just finding the man dead).” Wikipedia
  • Dil Dhadakne Do 2015

    “For one scene set in Istanbul's Sophia Museum, tourists and museum staff were used as extras for the sequence, which took six hours to film.” Wikipedia