<P> As described by several Western visitors ( such as the Córdoban nobleman Pero Tafur and the Florentine Cristoforo Buondelmonti ) , the church was in a dilapidated state , with several of its doors fallen from their hinges ; Mehmed II ordered a renovation as well as the conversion . Mehmet attended the first Friday prayer in the mosque on 1 June 1453 . Aya Sofya became the first imperial mosque of Istanbul . To the corresponding Waqf were endowed most of the existing houses in the city and the area of the future Topkapı Palace . From 1478 , 2,360 shops , 1,300 houses , 4 caravanserais , 30 boza shops , and 23 shops of sheep heads and trotters gave their income to the foundation . Through the imperial charters of 1520 ( AH 926 ) and 1547 ( AH 954 ) shops and parts of the Grand Bazaar and other markets were added to the foundation . </P>
<P> As described by several Western visitors ( such as the Córdoban nobleman Pero Tafur and the Florentine Cristoforo Buondelmonti ) , the church was in a dilapidated state , with several of its doors fallen from their hinges ; Mehmed II ordered a renovation as well as the conversion . Mehmet attended the first Friday prayer in the mosque on 1 June 1453 . Aya Sofya became the first imperial mosque of Istanbul . To the corresponding Waqf were endowed most of the existing houses in the city and the area of the future Topkapı Palace . From 1478 , 2,360 shops , 1,300 houses , 4 caravanserais , 30 boza shops , and 23 shops of sheep heads and trotters gave their income to the foundation . Through the imperial charters of 1520 ( AH 926 ) and 1547 ( AH 954 ) shops and parts of the Grand Bazaar and other markets were added to the foundation . </P>
who turned the hagia sophia into a mosque
who turned the hagia sophia into a mosque
Mehmed II
Mehmed II