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Compare this image of the Lego set above to this image of the Hagia Sophia.
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But even if George Lucas and his writers were inspired by the Hagia Sophia, so what?
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Most still consider the Four Seasons, opened in 1996 in a former 19th-century prison next to the Hagia Sophia, the city's best hotel.
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So I think we would be safe in concluding that Turks are not really all that upset about Hagia Sophia and its shape.
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The Turkish Cultural Association of Austria complained that the Lego set resembled Hagia Sophia, a 4th Century Orthodox Christian church in Istanbul that the Ottoman Turks converted into a mosque, and is now a museum.
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We ate them in the shade of a tall chestnut in the town square and drank cold draft beers, then pedaled on to Souillac and the old abbey there, built by returned Crusaders in the style of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, which they had seen on their way to Jerusalem.
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