The Haghia Sophia was built as a church. It is nearly 600 years older than Islam and older even than the Vatican.
The Hagia Sophia now standing in Istanbul was built between 532 and 537 A.D. It’s pretty amazing that it was built in only five years. Mohammed was born in 570 and died in 632 A.D., just 100 years after Hagia Sophia was completed.
Old St. Peter’s, one of the first Christian basilicas in Rome, was begun about 323 A.D. It was rebuilt as the new St. Peter’s in the early 16th century and finished in the later 17th century.
I’d like to see more images of the new mosque in question, but so far I think it’s fine. There are already so many mosque imitators of Hagia Sophia that I appreciate a new version.
Yes, agreed Haghia Sophia was a church before the Ottomans took over, but it was a mosque for centuries, and no one of the Islamic persuasion had any problems with its shallow dome all that time, and many mosques were built in imitation of it.