Everyone may know the Ayasofya [Hagia Sophia] but it is best we share some basic information about this historic edifice because this article is about what it was and what it may…
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“We currently stand next to the Hagia Sophia mosque,” so said Turkey’s deputy prime minister, Bulent Arinc last month during a dedication of a museum of Caucasus rugs and carpets next to…
ISTANBUL — In this ancient city, there are few sights more iconic than the dome of the Hagia Sophia, towering over the old city for more than 1,400 years. But recent conversions…
By Giuseppe Nardi in Katholisches.info, translated by “Tancred Vekron99”, with grateful acknowledgement (Damascus) Islamist rebels have launched an offensive north of Damascus to Deir Atieh. In the city with a population…
New Liturgical Movement: The Traditional Mass and the Christian East: A Series by Joseph Shaw of the Latin Mass Society
Bülent Arinç, Turkey’s deputy prime minister, said that the famed Hagia Sophia church in Istanbul should again become a mosque – prompting a sharp reaction from Greece’s foreign ministry. Dedicated in 537,…
MYSTAGOGY: Byzantine Music as an “Art of Music and Art of Therapy”
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Ancient monastery closed to visitors amid Sinai unrest, but Bedouin neighbors protect it – The Washington Post
On September 27 Christians of the Byzantine Rite (Julian Calendar) celebrate the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross