such a beautiful Cathedral!

@Goyim-phobic

7 ай бұрын

Wake up to reallllity

@Drakelx55

18 күн бұрын

@@Goyim-phobic Ya'll really are sensitive aren't you. All someone has to do is say church or cathedral and ya'll come running up to comment.

The destruction of the mosaics inside Hagia Sofia was one of history's greatest cultural crimes.

@Andy_Babb

8 ай бұрын

⁠@@Botoburstumm… dude, you know that Christianity has been around longer and responsible for even more atrocities in history than Islam, right? Religion in general is the biggest cause of death and destruction in the history of mankind. I’m not saying one is better than the other or one is right and the other wrong; both religions have done more horrible, horrible things over the last 2,000 years than anything else.

@dzulkar9umar

7 ай бұрын

The destruction of the islamic mosaics and carvings in Alhambra and Cordoba was one of history's greatest cultural crimes.

@Andy_Babb

7 ай бұрын

@@dzulkar9umar definitely agree with you. Looking at the destruction of so many ancient monuments is heartbreaking

@commonman9782

7 ай бұрын

@@dzulkar9umar the spain just took back what's theirs. originally was a church.

@jcgaming908

7 ай бұрын

​@@commonman9782the time will come when muslims will take it back

I'm always fascinated by architecture of ancient times 🤔greetings from Oman 🇴🇲

@Andy_Babb

8 ай бұрын

Hello Oman! Greetings from Massachusetts (USA)!

Hagia Sofia is the center of Roman-Greek civilization. It is made to be felt by inside. Unlike the Parthenon of Athens, it's not the outside view but the feeling when stepping into it.

@abbofun9022

7 ай бұрын

True, it is really awesome walking into that huge space, truly jaw dropping.

Another big THANK YOU! Keeping my ancient interests fed and happy!😂

@get.factual

8 ай бұрын

Always🫡

I saw it with my own eyes. It was amazing, just breathtaking!!! U can smell the whole history when u inside the mosque.

It's not just a "monument". It's among the world's most important churches.

@abbofun9022

7 ай бұрын

Eh? It hasn’t been a church since 1453, what’s you on about?

@paazbra

7 ай бұрын

@abbofun9022 it was designed and built as a church. It was operated for most of its history as a church. The fact that it was stolen, desecrated and pillaged doesn't change the fact that it is still an occupied church.

@abbofun9022

7 ай бұрын

@@paazbra oh boy, what a fossilised attitude, what’s next? A crusade to free Constantinople?

@freaksexpose2482

7 ай бұрын

⁠@@abbofun9022don’t cry when mosque al aqsa will be changed to 3rd temple

@naomi-fm2gl

7 ай бұрын

​@@abbofun9022Your just a hater that the Christians were able to build a beautiful church

Stunning but serene. Masterpiece..would that our nations had the resilience to withstand the politics andwars thathavebeen committed against its peaceful structure

visited during Christmas 2023

This will always be a church 🙏🙏🙏

🤯🤯✨✨

🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

It's just not perfect, also beautiful.

The pantheon is larger and extremely more complicated. It also has never been added on to or redone.

Ave Theotokos of Hagia Sophia

You can not turn a beautiful church into a mosque. As long as the church still stands it will always be an Eastern Orthodox monument.

@abbofun9022

7 ай бұрын

Eh? Sure you can, although build as a magnificent church it is used as a mosque since 1453. I’d say the usage defines the name of a building.

@valcobi

7 ай бұрын

it wasn’t build to be a mosque. Different architecture, different painting and so on. That was build by Christian architects. It’s history. You can’t change history.

@abbofun9022

7 ай бұрын

@@valcobi nor should you ignore history, the building has been used as a mosque since 1453. So it would be only logical to say that it is a mosque nowadays.

@thapelomontsho9463

6 ай бұрын

​@@valcobiThe Theotokos of Hagia Sophia proclaims her as a Cathedral

@naomi-fm2gl

5 ай бұрын

​@@abbofun9022Just another way to waste people's time the fact that it's a mosque it is technically a religious building because of the Christian mosaics

Ancient Marvels: The Ingenious Design of Hagia Sophia. Full Documentary. What a Masterpiece Building in the World. I visited this Mosque and I prayed in this Mosque. I live in London, England.

@vafflexorza3208

7 ай бұрын

Poop on your prayer Hagia Sophia is not a mosque, it is a Greek ordadox church.

@dionysise5008

5 ай бұрын

If you want to pray you can visit a Mosque. Hagia Sofia is a Greek Orthodox Church.

@ApproachingPerfection

4 ай бұрын

@@vafflexorza3208 no its a mosque go cry somewhere else

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@MyYTaccountName

8 ай бұрын

Go away

Please be accurate. The church is Byzantine and not from Turkey. Turkey never built the church, the Turks stole the land and the church.

@RealUvane

8 ай бұрын

And the original congregation went to russia and became the russian orthodox.

@TK0_23_

7 ай бұрын

Conquered. Not stole.

@silentbullet2023

7 ай бұрын

Catholics and Latins "stole" and raped the city, Turks conquered it. That's why Loukas Notaras famously wrote in a letter "I would rather see a Turkish turban in the midst of the City than the Latin mitre."

@abbofun9022

7 ай бұрын

Please be accurate, calling them “Byzantine” is a fairly modern invention. These people considered themselves to be Romans and in later centuries Roman-Greek, never Byzantine. And always the continuation of the Roman Empire that collapsed in the west but continued in the east until 1453.

I can see that the debate about whether to consider this architectural miracle a church or a mosque persists. But why don't we don't we just put all of that aside and contemplate this architectural feat