Robin, I've been a fan since episode 1! I'm so glad to see you putting up youtube content. I actually got to see the Hagia Sophia back in the year 2000. Thanks so much for the fresh look at it!

Thanks Robin! I really enjoy your podcast and now greatly appreciate your videos too.

Love your content so much! Keep up the great work

Thanks for these videos!

Your content us so well done. Please continue

Awesome! Any updated traveling tips, since I believe when you visited it was still just a museum?

@TheHistoryofByzantiumPodcast

2 жыл бұрын

Keep your shoes with you at all times. It's a mosque now so you have to take them off but they may get stolen if you leave them in the shoe racks

It should be continued as a museum rather being being restore as a house of worship. Without any solid evidence, Muslims insisted that Sultan Mehmed II purchased it from the Patriarch Of Constantinople prior to convert it as a mosque. It is the holiest shrine in Eastern Orthodox Christianity just like St Peter's in Rome to the Roman Catholics or the Masjid Al Haram in Mecca to the Muslims and the church will never sell it regardless. It may sell unimportant churches but never Hagia Sophia. Muslims often complains about many churches in Spain that are formerly mosques before being converted. The Spanish never denied that they seized mosques and either converted them or construct new churches after demolished them during the Reconquista. Muslims on the other deny that Sultan Mehmd II seized Hagia Sophia as a war trophy and insist that he purchased it.

@randomguy-kn1wl

11 ай бұрын

I mean what you or i want is irrelevant. Even if the Ottomans lied about purchasing it or not where does it matter? That´s nobody´s business but the turks

@ReplyToMeIfUrRetarded

8 ай бұрын

cringe secularist

According to the Turkish airlines free city tour, the tour guide pronounced the museum/ mosque as Aia Sophia, with the H and G muted. I think the tour guide is more accurate since its their job If female tourist wears a short skirt to visit the Blue Mosque, they loan tourist a pull up long skirt to enter the mosque. I visited Hagia Sophia for the 4th time on October 6th 2021 , i wore long pants, so im not sure if during summer, when tourist are in shorts, im not sure if they will require tourist to borrow the long pull up skirts or not. When it was a museum, it was not an issue.

And say: Truth hath come and falsehood hath vanished away. Falsehood is ever bound to vanish☪️Elhamdilullah🇹🇷.

@marcmathew4073

Жыл бұрын

Exactly islam will vanish away one day.

@dunyamkucuk9193

Жыл бұрын

@@marcmathew4073 wish know it Marc!

Aja Sofija je odraz jednog vremena, shvatanja i stremljenja ka veličanstvenom.

The volume of the music is overwhelming

Beautiful

Normally, a church cannot be converted into a mosque and vice versa. A Christian place of worship is built from east to west. A mosque is built in the direction of Mecca. For this reason, the Hagia Sophia cannot be a mosque. Its construction does not fit into the canon of Islam. Many imams take offence at the rededication by the Turkish state.

@Forlfir

Жыл бұрын

Then make it in a church again, or at least a museum

Halfdan carved these runes.

İre'nke ne'ninak Üdvözlet kedves szomsze'd asszony,la'tlok ott a sarokban!!!Cso'kolom csa'sza'rne'/Hasret kaldım imparatoriçe Piroska(İre'nke),Selâmlar...Erdelden,İsten nyugtassa!!!

they closed the second floor for "restoration", so unable to see the mosaics or the viking etching. The restoration probably means "covering up everything behind the cloth"

So sad it has been desecrated

Make Istanbul Constantinople again!

@dunyamkucuk9193

2 жыл бұрын

We will be waiting in Istanbul for every sinner who wants to end his earthly life and reach hell quickly.

Grand Mosque Ayasofya

Sadly Turks defiled the cathedral by implementing worship of some foreign deity they worship on its premises.