Landmarks & buildings
Hagia Sophia
mosque, museum, and former church in Istanbul, Turkey
Turkey · 41.0083, 28.9800
Hagia Sophia is recorded as a filming location for 1 production. Wikipedia names it for 6 more.
“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).”
Movies filmed at Hagia Sophia
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Hagia Sophia as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than the statements above, so it gets its own list, each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.
- Argo 2012
- From Russia with Love 1963
- Inferno 2016
- Topkapi 1964
- Baraka 1992
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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
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Frequently asked questions
What was filmed at Hagia Sophia?
7 productions are recorded as filmed at Hagia Sophia, including The Fall (2006), Argo (2012) and From Russia with Love (1963). 6 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Which is the best known production filmed at Hagia Sophia?
The Fall (2006), covered by 25 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Hagia Sophia?
Hagia Sophia is in Turkey. Its coordinates are 41.0083, 28.9800.
What other filming locations are near Hagia Sophia?
Basilica Cistern (under 1 km), Sultan Ahmet (under 1 km), Sultanahmet Jail (under 1 km), Sultan Ahmed Mosque (under 1 km) and 2 more, all within 40 km and listed on this page with photographs.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 3.0.