Hagia Sofia

Quality:

Hagia Sophia - mosque, museum, and former church in Istanbul, Turkey. This building is the 10^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of buildings and the 38^th most popular building in Swedish Wikipedia. Article “Hagia Sofia” in Swedish Wikipedia has 46.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 11 references and 10 sections.

This article has the best quality in Arabic Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Swedish Wikipedia:

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The 4672^nd most popular in Swedish Wikipedia.

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The 2465^th most editable in Swedish Wikipedia.

The 38^th most popular in buildings in Swedish Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1644^th most popular in all topics.

The 1219^th most popular in AI.

The 10^th most popular in buildings.

Achievements in the last month:

Swedish Wikipedia:

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The 7032^nd most popular in Swedish Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2621^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3694^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Hagia Sofia”, its content was written by 98 registered users of Swedish Wikipedia (2465^th place) and edited by 5958 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1219^th place).

Hagia Sophia is on the 38^th place in local ranking of buildings in Swedish Wikipedia and on the 10^th place in global ranking of buildings in all the time.

The article is cited 169 times in Swedish Wikipedia and cited 14262 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Swedish): #5 in July 2020
• Global: #2 in July 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Swedish): #25 in July 2020
• Global: #7 in July 2020

There are 54 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Arabic (ar) آيا صوفيا		98.4222
2	English (en) Hagia Sophia		97.2551
3	German (de) Hagia Sophia		97.0638
4	Armenian (hy) Սուրբ Սոֆիայի տաճար (Ստամբուլ)		93.5001
5	Chinese (zh) 阿亚索菲亚		92.5693
6	Russian (ru) Собор Святой Софии (Константинополь)		92.0897
7	Esperanto (eo) Hagia Sofia		88.5714
8	Serbian (sr) Аја Софија		87.0243
9	Slovenian (sl) Hagija Sofija		85.6104
10	Slovak (sk) Hagia Sofia		84.6397

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hagia Sophia		25 816 290
2	Turkish (tr) Ayasofya		6 873 851
3	Russian (ru) Собор Святой Софии (Константинополь)		5 112 860
4	Spanish (es) Santa Sofía		4 688 057
5	German (de) Hagia Sophia		4 658 902
6	French (fr) Sainte-Sophie (Constantinople)		3 479 115
7	Arabic (ar) آيا صوفيا		2 472 396
8	Greek (el) Αγία Σοφία (Κωνσταντινούπολη)		2 134 552
9	Italian (it) Santa Sofia (Istanbul)		1 995 776
10	Polish (pl) Hagia Sophia		1 955 349

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hagia Sophia		103 705
2	Russian (ru) Собор Святой Софии (Константинополь)		23 869
3	Turkish (tr) Ayasofya		16 158
4	German (de) Hagia Sophia		14 244
5	Spanish (es) Santa Sofía		14 049
6	French (fr) Sainte-Sophie (Constantinople)		13 061
7	Italian (it) Santa Sofia (Istanbul)		7 248
8	Chinese (zh) 阿亚索菲亚		6 861
9	Arabic (ar) آيا صوفيا		6 249
10	Japanese (ja) アヤソフィア		5 787

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hagia Sophia		1 406
2	German (de) Hagia Sophia		513
3	French (fr) Sainte-Sophie (Constantinople)		375
4	Turkish (tr) Ayasofya		333
5	Italian (it) Santa Sofia (Istanbul)		260
6	Russian (ru) Собор Святой Софии (Константинополь)		215
7	Spanish (es) Santa Sofía		213
8	Dutch (nl) Hagia Sophia		186
9	Polish (pl) Hagia Sophia		143
10	Arabic (ar) آيا صوفيا		140

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hagia Sophia		14
2	Spanish (es) Santa Sofía		4
3	French (fr) Sainte-Sophie (Constantinople)		4
4	Italian (it) Santa Sofia (Istanbul)		2
5	Romanian (ro) Hagia Sofia din Istanbul		2
6	Serbian (sr) Аја Софија		2
7	Basque (eu) Santa Sofia		1
8	Hindi (hi) हागिया सोफिया		1
9	Indonesian (id) Hagia Sofia, Istanbul		1
10	Georgian (ka) აია-სოფიას ტაძარი		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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