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Aug 1, 2022 · August 1, 2022. Eleftherios Noufrakis, the Greek priest, who defied all odds to conduct a liturgy in Hagia Sophia. Public Domain. A brave Greek priest managed to hold an Orthodox liturgy in Hagia Sophia in 1919 at a time when the iconic cathedral was being used as a mosque. It is commonly believed that the last Orthodox liturgy in Hagia Sophia ...
Jun 13, 2015 · It is commonly believed that the last Divine Liturgy in Hagia Sophia in Constantinople took place on May 28, 1453. However, the last Divine Liturgy to really take place in Hagia Sophia was on the 19th of January in 1919, which was officiated by Papa Lefteris Noufrakis (1872-1941) from Rethymno, Crete. The story of this historic event is below.
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The Liturgy of the Hours and the Divine Liturgy form the focus of this essay as these two services took place in the interior of Hagia Sophia for the most part and responded to the architectural space and its acoustics. The Justinianic Hagia Sophia offered a very reverberant interior more suited for monodic chant than speech.
May 12, 2023 · Hagia Sophia Museum (2020); Antoloji, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons While the complex’s usage as a place of worship was officially forbidden, the Turkish government approved the designation of a venue in the museum complex to be used as a prayer room in 1991, and two of the minarets have been frequently utilized for voicing the call to prayer since 2013.
Sep 29, 2019 · Although it may sound more like wishful thinking than historical fact, there was indeed a brave Greek priest who managed to hold an Orthodox liturgy in Hagia Sophia in 1919, at a time when the ...
May 29, 2015 · Many, even Orthodox, even Greeks, believe that the last Divine Liturgy in St. Sophia, in Constantinople, was celebrated on the 29 May 1453. However, the last Liturgy took place in 1919. The priest who celebrated the Divine Liturgy was Fr. Lefteris Noufarakis, who was from Alones Rethymnou, Crete. He was an army priest in the Second Greek Army ...
Dec 25, 2023 · The interior of Hagia Sophia is lined with enormous marble slabs which are said to have been designed to imitate moving water. The 104 columns of Hagia Sophia were imported from the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus as well as from Egypt. The building measures some 93 meters 9305 feet) in length and 81 meters (266 feet) in width and, at its highest ...
