...This chapter analyses the shift from Hagia Sophia’s status as a museum to a mosque in the summer of 2020 as the paradigmatic example of the public dominance and triumphalism of the AKP’s nationalist vision under Erdoğan. The shift in Hagia Sophia’s status marks the high point of the AKP’s use...

...Figure I.1 View of the public square in front of Hagia Sophia, 2022. Photo: Emily Neumeier. Figure I.2 A view of Hagia Sophia, ‘the exterior of the mosque, before its restoration’: Gaspare Fossati, Aya Sofia, Constantinople: As Recently Restored by Order of H.M. the Sultan Abdul...

...Figure 4.1 Comparison of the dimensions of Hagia Sophia with those of other monuments of world architecture. Konstantios, (Constantinople: Dimitrios Paspalis, 1844), 89. New York Public Library. Figure 4.2 The angel Jibrîl delivers a message from God to Muhammad, ordering him to leave Mecca...

...Figure 8.1 A plate from the Fossati album (1852) showing the interior view of the Hagia Sophia Mosque, drawn from the lower north gallery. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vue_centrale_de_la_nef_du_nord_-_Fossati_Gaspard_-_1852.jpg (accessed 16 January 2023). Figure 8.2 A plate from...

...Figure 9.1 Hagia Sophia, seen from the south-west in a popular postcard view; although postmarked 1916, the photograph on which it is based must be from the third quarter of the nineteenth century. Author’s collection. Figure 9.2 Hagia Sophia, interior looking east, from the studio of Sébah...

... Hagia Sophia hajj Mecca Alexander the Great Jewish Diaspora Hagia Sophia Holy Land Flavius Josephus Kingdom of Judah Judaism New Testament Old Testament C1.P1 Ancient Israel’s discovery of the One God and the religion that developed around that awareness were deeply influenced by the course...

... God conceptions of Incarnation the Trinity Antioch Antiochene Mary Nestorius Nestorians Church es particular India Iraq Miaphysites Syria idol idolatry Muslims Patriarch of Constantinople pope papacy Roman Catholic Church Roman Catholics Arabs Hagia Sophia icons iconoclasm Orthodox...

.... In the mid-1830s, the Englishwoman Julia Pardoe (then resident in Istanbul) visited the mosque of Hagia Sophia with a group of more recently arrived visitors. She writes, “A group of Ulemas were engaged in prayer as we entered … and almost in the centre of the floor knelt a party of women similarly engaged...

... and cathedrals, starting with her early journals and her formative encounter with Hagia Sophia in Constantinople in 1906. It then discusses her frequent references to English places of worship, most significantly St Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey, both as symbols of patriarchal and imperial power...

... and apse mosaics in Hagia Sophia and the portable icon of the Archangel—this essay explores how the perception of animation of the icons and architectural interior emerge out of the synergy among material images, imagined visions, and ekphrasis. dreams and imagination in art ekphrasis in Byzantine art...

... aesthetic impact holiness transcendence immanence height light volume Hagia Sophia (Constantinople) Christ Church Lutheran (Minneapolis) Julia Morgan articulation Thorncrown Chapel at Eureka Springs (Arkansas) Entering a church is a metaphor for entering into the presence of the holy. A church...

... with the Latins. These texts, which de facto also announced the jurisdictional independence of the Rus Church from the Patriarchate of Constantinople, convey a novel Russian ecclesiology which is based not on the Byzantine idea of five equal Patriarchates (Pentarchy), but on the concept of Hagia Sophia. The Hagia...

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... acquired a pilgrimage-related significance in later times. An example of the latter is Hagia Sophia, which was in itself a pilgrimage church but emerged as one of Byzantium's premier venues of sacred travel. In the case of objects, whether mosaics or icons, they came to be regarded as sacred and worthy...

...) south-western side; g–h) north-western side. Fig. 6.7. Monumental monograms on the gallery level of Sts Sergius and Bacchus: a–c) ΘΕΟΔΩΡΑC monograms; d) ΑΥΓΟΥCΤΑC monogram. Fig. 6.8. Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, inner view. Fig. 6.9. Imperial monograms in Hagia Sophia: a) ΒΑCΙΛΕΩC; b) ΙΟΥCΤΙΝΙΑΝΟΥ...

... motivated Ottoman authors to include accounts of Khiḍr in the transformation of the Hagia Sophia into an Ottoman mosque, the chapter traces two major developments in the Ottoman understanding of Khiḍr. The first of these is exemplified by Khiḍr's association with early Islamic sites while the second focuses...

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... Constantinople ekphrasis prayer simile Hagia Sophia GREGORY NAZIANZUS Anchises Gregory of Nazianzus intertextuality lyric ruler HOMERIC HYMNS comparison of the maiden to the moon invocation CALLIMACHUS Callimachus Christian poetry Hesiodic Julian the Apostate adaptation manuscript Proclus...