the supreme court of turkey ordered to revert the status of Hagia Sophia into a mosque. Hagia Sophia or ayasofia was turned into a museum by the founder of Turk republic kamal attaturk in 1935. Hagia Sophia is an ancient building conquered by the great ottoman emperor Sultan Muhammad Fateh in 1453.at that time it was a catholic church.he bought it from Christians and made it a great mosque with Islamic culture changes