On the occasion of Ramadan, the municipal authorities of the Fatih Municipality of Istanbul decided…
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan uses every opportunity to provoke Greece when giving speeches ahead…
Vandalism continues in Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. With his post on social networks, the archaeologist…
Newly-elected US senator wants Turkey to convert Hagia Sophia back to a museum.The Democratic senator…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan remembered Hagia Sophia during a big event in Ankara called…
Turkish media complained that the Murat Reis Mosque in Rhodes, which was built on top…
Even though the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople (Istanbul), originally a Christian Orthodox Cathedral, has been…
On 30 September the very spirit of Byzantium will be rekindled in Athens with the…
Irene Papas chanted the Byzantine hymn “Ti Hypermacho Stratigo” inside Hagia Sophia in Istanbul during…
The Association of Greek Archaeologists is sounding the alarm about the discredit and indifference to…
As director of the Topkapi Museum [the former palace of the Sultans] Ilber Ortaili was…
Turkish network A TV reported new vandalism against Hagia Sophia, stating that the monument has…
New images of damage to the Hagia Sophia has caused outrage and anger, this time…
Empress Theodora is referred to as the most powerful woman in Byzantine history. Empress Theodora…
On Thursday, June 9, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew received His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of…
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.
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.…