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.
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A group of U.S. lawmakers published a letter on Thursday calling on the U.S. Commission on International…
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.
Referred to as one of the darkest days in Greek history, the Fall of Constantinople took place on May 29, 1453, a battle that was part of the Byzantine-Ottoman Wars (1265-1453).
Turkey illuminated Hagia Sophia – a former Byzantine church that was turned into a mosque…
The Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (IAO) in collaboration with OrthPhoto.net have organised a photography contest…
For eight years, Greek restorer Venizelos Gavrilakis and his colleagues have preserved artifacts, icons, frescos…
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew met with the Special Adviser to the Director-General of UNESCO, Mounir Bouchenaki…
A provocative statement by the Patriarch of Moscow Kirill during a TV interview he gave…
With 2020 finished, what is it exactly that Greeks searched for the most on Wikipedia?…
Wikipedia’s most-read pages in 2020 is like holding up an ‘encyclopedic mirror’ to the year…
There is a new diplomatic campaign by Athens that extends from the Mediterranean to India.…
The Byzantine Association of Moscow continues to express its concerns about the conversion of Hagia…
Five prominent Greek Americans have called on the US government to take action and not…
Google is the go-to destination when you need to find something on the web. As…
Despite international condemnation over the decision to change Hagia Sophia from a museum into a mosque,…
The protesting by the Recep Tayyip Erdoğan regime against Greece’s so-called violations of religious freedoms…
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) condemned Turkey’s decision to convert Hagia…
Greek-American political advisor and communications expert Jen Psaki has been named press secretary in US President-elect Joe Biden’s new all-female White House communications team.
El Periódico newspaper published an extensive report by its correspondent in Constantinople (Κωνσταντινούπολις, Turkish: İstanbul),…