The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America and the Foundation of the Hellenic World (FHW) have announced a historic ...

“I think of Hagia Sophia, and I am very saddened,” Pope ... Bishop Hilarion, who heads the Russian Orthodox Church's department for external church relations, described it as “a blow to ...

Tourists flock en masse to the Hagia Sophia for its stunning architecture, glorious interior views and historical significance. Built between 532 and 537, the building was a church for nearly a ...

and the great cathedral of Hagia Sophia became a mosque. The world's balance of power had changed. But if the Byzantine state foundered, the Orthodox Church survived. The faith we see proclaimed ...

Once the largest Christian church for over a thousand years, Hagia Sophia was built under the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I. Over time, it has served as a Greek Orthodox cathedral, a Roman ...

at the back of the cathedral. It is a typical Orthodox Christian icon, also present in the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. The ...

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As the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the “Days of Slavic Culture ... was librarian of the great cathedral of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople until 860, when he resigned to join St. Methodius, the ...

Such a sight will not leave anyone indifferent. Hagia Sophia is a former Patriarchal Orthodox Cathedral built in 537. For more than 86 years it was a museum and only in 2020 it became a mosque again.