Hagia Sophia was one of several great churches originally built by Constantine, the first Christian emperor and founder of the city of Constantinople. For almost 1,000 years Hagia Sophia remained the largest Greek Orthodox Christian church in the world.
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Pro-Erdoğan media accused Christian pilgrims of being responsible for new images of shame that show…
Images shared on social media showing visitors at the 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia removing small pieces…
The Turkish Directorate of Culture and Tourism denied the new incident of vandalism in Hagia…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced the issuance of new national passports on Monday night.…
Assad visits Emperor Justinian-founded Convent of Our Lady of Sednaya, Hagia Sophia Museum on Easter
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma visited the Convent of Our Lady of…
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke with UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay on Thursday over…
New photos and videos of vandalism, garbage and dirt in Hagia Sophia are spreading like…
The Greek Foreign Ministry has reacted to the vandalism against the Imperial Gate of Hagia…
Turkey’s Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque in Istanbul held its first Tarawih prayer in 88 years…
The State Department has asked the Turkish government to respect the diverse history of religious…
The church of Hagia Sophia (literally “Holy Wisdom”) in Constantinople, now Istanbul, was first dedicated…
A 30 cm stone that had come off a wall inside the Hagia Sophia in…
Foreign Affairs Minister Nikos Dendias addressed the opening of an exhibition at the Byzantine and…
Turkey: Hagia Sophia “Mosque” in Nicaea/Iznik By Uzay Bulut Much of the international community has…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday commemorated the first anniversary of the reopening of…
Strong concern about the consequences of the conversion of Hagia Sophia and the Chora Church…
Deputy FM at Greece-Russia History Year launch: Greece expects Russian support on Hagia Sophia issue
The Greece-Russia History Year was officially launched with the signing of joint minutes at the…
“Those in Turkey who are bothered by prayers in Hagia Sophia, let them go to…
Two of the most important Christian churches in the world, the church of St. Peter in Rome and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, are known to have some very impressive crypts and catacombs and so it is not surprising that a similar “underworld system” might exist under Hagia Sophia.