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A Visit to Hagia Sophia
By Robert Zaller, Ph.D.
It could not have been known, but those of us fortunate enough to have seen Hagia Sophia between 1935 and 2020...
On The Road to Constantinople: Repairs of Hagia Sophia Dome by 10th Century Armenian Architect
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them,” by Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaulti de Galilei, an Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer.1
Hagia Sophia...
The destruction of civilization, the other side of the Conqueror and conquest
By Ioannis Mpaltzois
There are more mosques in Turkey than there are schools. To the existing 84,684 mosques, one more was added. Hagia Sophia became...
Maloney and Bilirakis Introduce House Resolution Calling on Turkey to Respect Religious Freedom
Hellenic Caucus Co-Chairs Maloney and Bilirakis Introduce House Resolution Calling on Turkey to Respect Religious Freedom of Ecumenical Patriarchate
WASHINGTON, DC – Representatives Carolyn B....
Hellenic News of America’s Official Editorial Response to the Turkish Government’s July 2020 Actions On the Further Desecration of the Hagia Sophia
July 13, 2020
Dear Readers,
We would like to express our condemnation of the July 2020 decree by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ordering the reclassification...
HANC denounces the decision to convert Hagia Sophia to a mosque
We express categorical disagreement and denouncement of President Erdogan’s anti-Christian and anti-Hellenic decision to convert Hagia Sophia from a museum, under the protection of...
RISCH, MENENDEZ STATEMENT ON TURKEY’S HAGIA SOPHIA
BOISE, Idaho – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today issued...
Congressman Bilirakis Condemns Erdogan’s Actions
Today, Congressman Gus Bilirakis released the following statement: "As Co-Chair of the Congressional Caucus on International Religious Freedom and an Orthodox Christian, I condemn...
AHI Strongly Condemns Erdogan’s Decision to Change Hagia Sophia’s Status
AHI Calls for Vocal U.S. Outrage at this “Sordid Act”
WASHINGTON, DC — The American Hellenic Institute (AHI) strongly condemns Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s formal...