Thessaloniki’s 558-Year-Old Mosque Finally Opens to the Public
A mosque that sat behind scaffolding for nearly half a century reopened in Thessaloniki on Sunday, and the city is treating it as a landmark moment. The Hamza…
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Bulgaria Returns 53 Greek Church Treasures After 109 Years
Greece’s Culture Ministry officially presented 53 church treasures this week that Bulgaria returned after holding them for 109 years, including Byzantine…
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Greece Spends €15M to Restore a 600-Year-Old Ottoman Mosque
Greece is pouring roughly 15 million euros into restoring the Bayezid Mosque in Didymoteicho, one of the most significant Ottoman monuments built on European…
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The Hagia Sophia of Trebizond Was Built to Celebrate This Day
Every year on August 6, the Orthodox Christian world marks the Feast of the Transfiguration of Christ, the moment the Gospels describe Jesus revealing his…
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Constantine’s Bridge Resurfaces After 1,700 Years
Low water levels in the Danube River have exposed the foundations of a bridge built by Emperor Constantine the Great, giving archaeologists their first close…
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The Forgotten Rock in the Corinthian Gulf That Archbishop Ieronymos Turned Into a Shrine
A barren islet in the Corinthian Gulf, reachable only by small boat, has been quietly transformed into an Orthodox spiritual site over the past four decades…
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The 5 Places in Istanbul That Haven’t Changed Since Byzantine Times
Six hundred years after the fall of Constantinople, five landmarks still stand exactly as Byzantine Greeks knew them, and visiting them today feels less like…
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The Legend That Constantine Palaiologos Turned to Marble Inside Hagia Sofia
For centuries, two legends about Hagia Sofia have passed from generation to generation among Greek Orthodox Christians, and they remain alive today.
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The Greek Merchants Who Reached Poland Before the Fall of Constantinople
Poland recently granted official national minority status to its Greek community, and the story behind that recognition stretches back over 700 years, long…
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Archaeologists Find a Hidden City Buried Under Hagia Sophia
Archaeologists have discovered an entire underground city beneath Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, and the scale of it caught even the experts off guard.
