Built in the 12th century under Norman rule, it boasts Italy's largest Byzantine-style mosaics, second in the world only to those of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. Now, this Unesco World Heritage site ...
Hidden beneath the historic halls of Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia is a mysterious network of tunnels, corridors, and tombs. These ...
Hagia Sophia remains the symbolic center of Greek Orthodoxy even centuries after its fall to the Ottomans and conversion to a ...
But Turkish officials say Christian emblems, including mosaics of the Virgin Mary which adorn its soaring golden dome, will not be removed. Making changes at Hagia Sophia is profoundly symbolic.
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and Hagia Sophia - an Orthodox Christian cathedral - was converted into a mosque for Friday prayers. Four minarets were added to the exterior, wclerichile ornate Christian icons and gold mosaics ...
MOSCOW, July 5. /TASS/. The preservation of Byzantine mosaics in Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia will be brought into question if the historical monument, which is now a museum, is turned into a mosque ...
Restoration efforts are underway at Hagia Sophia in Istanbul ... "The underside of the dome is covered with mosaics, making structural intervention from below almost impossible," he stated ...
Life in Greece and in the Byzantine Empire as a whole is a fascinating chapter of human history that not many pay attention ...