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Hagia Sophia: The Center of Greek Orthodox Faith Through the Ages
” width=”1000″>Hagia Sophia, the Byzantine cathedral which served as the seat of Eastern Christianity for nearly one thousand years, is now a mosque. Credit: Greek Reporter
Hagia Sophia in Istanbul remains the symbolic center of the Greek Orthodox faith, even almost six centuries after its fall to the Ottomans and its conversion to a mosque.
From 537 to 1453, the “Great Church” – as the Byzantines called it – was the eastern heart of Christianity.
” width=”1080″>The massive temple held a total of 23,000 worshipers, and 525 priests, deacons and chanters served its liturgies.
However, the significance of Hagia Sophia (“Holy Wisdom” in English) was assuredly not just because of its imposing size.
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Turkish and Ukrainian news sources announced on July 15 that the Ukrainian Naval Forces Command has received the first Bayraktar TB2 unmanned combat aerial vehicles from Turkey, a fact confirmed by Ukrainian Defense Minister Andriy Taran. Two weeks ago Ukraine deployed one of the Turkish combat drones for the joint U.S.-Ukraine-hosted 32-nation Sea Breeze war games in the Black Sea. The Ukrainian army already possesses Bayraktar TB2s, but now they will enter the navy’s arsenal as well.
Kiev had ordered the drones as well as MILGEM Ada-class anti-submarine warfare corvettes from Turkey late last year. (Guess who the latter will be used against.) The corvettes are the same model as those Turkey is building for Pakistan, its strategic ally in the Ankara-Baku-Islamabad military axis.
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