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Hagia Sophia (Great Church) - ܥܕܬܐ ܪܒܬܐ

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"The monumental main church of Constantinople was destroyed during the Nika riots in 532, then rebuilt by Justinian on an even greater scale. Known as the Great Church, it played a major role in imperial ceremonies throughout the Byzantine period."1

Names

  • ܥܕܬܐ ܪܒܬܐ
  • Hagia Sophia (Great Church)
  • ܥܕܬܐ3
  • ܥܕܬܐ ܪܒܬܐ2
  • Hagia Sophia (Great Church)1
  • Hagia Sophia (Große Kirche)4
  • Ἁγία Σοφία (μέγαλη ἐκκλησία)1

Place Type

church

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 41.008548° Long. 28.979938°5
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Alexander P. Kazhdan, ed., The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195046526.001.0001/acref-9780195046526, p: 892-895. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 Ernest Walter Brooks, Iohannis Ephesini Historiae Ecclesiasticae Pars Tertia, 2 vols., CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935), p: 96; 144; 172chapter: 3.2.29; 3.3.17; 3.3.39. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 Ernest Walter Brooks, Iohannis Ephesini Historiae Ecclesiasticae Pars Tertia, 2 vols., CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935), p: 13; 96; 106; 134; 138; 153; 160chapter: 3.1.12; 3.2.29; 3.2.39; 3.3.9; 3.3.13; 3.3.26; 3.3.31. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 4 Wolfgang Müller-Wiener, Bildlexikon Zur Topographie Istanbuls: Byzantion – Konstantinupolis – Istanbul (Tübingen: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, 1977), p: 84. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 5 Roger Bagnall et al., Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, JSON (https://zenodo.org/records/14828116: Zenodo, n.d.), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1193921, entry: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/307220778/imagery-location