Hagia Sophia Tickets — Frequently Asked Questions

The skip-the-line entry ticket with audio guide is €29.00 per person, all fees included — the price shown is the price charged. Entry to the Hagia Sophia History & Experience Museum is €23.00, and guided tours range from small-group departures up to a fully private tour at €200.00. Every current figure is kept in one live table on our ticket prices page.

Yes — Hagia Sophia is Istanbul’s busiest monument and the visitor entrance regularly sells out in high season. Booking online guarantees your entry and lets you walk past the ticket queue.

Yes. Your mobile ticket is emailed immediately after checkout. Show it on your phone at the visitor entrance — no printing needed.

There is a ticket booth at the site, but in high season its queue in Sultanahmet regularly stretches past an hour and busy time slots can sell out at the gate. Booking online costs the same, confirms your entry instantly, and lets you walk straight past the booth line to the visitor entrance.

No — this is not Hagia Sophia’s official operator site. It is an authorized point of sale: tickets here are official Istanbul.com inventory sold by Cityberry Tourism Agency, a licensed TURSAB member (licence 11745), with skip-the-ticket-line entry and an audio guide included.

Hagia Sophia is open to visitors daily from 09:00 to 19:00. As an active mosque, tourist visits pause briefly during the five daily prayer times.

The entry ticket is self-paced: skip-the-ticket-line admission to the visitor gallery with a multilingual audio guide included. Guided tours add a licensed human guide who walks you through the dome, the mosaics and the cathedral-to-mosque story — available as a standard group tour, a small-group departure, or a private tour at your own pace.

Head to the visitor entrance on the southwest side of Hagia Sophia — the side facing Sultanahmet Square and the Blue Mosque — and show the mobile ticket on your phone. The ground-floor entrance is reserved for worshippers, so don’t join the first queue you see. Security screening applies to all visitors.

Tickets can be cancelled free of charge any time before the day of your visit. On the visit day the ticket is issued and can no longer be cancelled. See our Refund & Cancellation policy for full details.

Brief daily prayer-time pauses are normal — you simply enter after the pause, and your ticket remains valid. If the attraction is fully closed on your visit date (state ceremony, security closure or similar), you receive a full refund under our Refund & Cancellation policy — no negotiation needed.