Modern-day Istanbul, known throughout history as Constantinople, has been a crossroads of cultures for centuries, a place where East and West meet. Constantinople brings its cross-cultural music ...

The current Hagia Sophia was built in the 6th century when Constantinople — as Istanbul was then called — was the heart of the Orthodox Christian Byzantine Empire that emerged as Ancient Rome ...

For almost 1,000 years, it was a Christian basilica, the largest and most spectacular temple not just in Constantinople, but in the entire Byzantine Empire. "Hagia Sophia is simply unique ...

“Given the current fragmentation in the Orthodox world over Ukraine and the frozen relationship between Moscow and Constantinople, any convening of all Orthodox primates at this stage seems ...

The location of Nicaea itself—in Asia Minor, only 40 miles from Byzantium, which would become Constantinople and usurp Rome as the capital of the Roman Empire under Constantine five years later ...

“It highlights the complex networks and power structures of ancient Macedonia, especially given the city’s location along trade routes to Constantinople. It’s even possible that historical ...

The structure is modeled after the Hagia Sophia, the foremost Orthodox Christian church built in the 4th century in Constantinople, the present-day Istanbul, Turkey. Inside, Fr. Michael Lambakis ...

Later, at the Council of Constantinople in 381, the longer reference to the Holy Spirit was added. When Jesus speaks of “my spirit,” he could be speaking in a generic sense of the soul ...

The second ecumenical council, held at Constantinople in 381, kept this expression in its formulation of the Nicene Creed and confessed 'the only- begotten Son of God, eternally begotten of the ...

In 1547, Ivan declared Muscovy a tsardom and Moscow to be the “Third Rome” – in other words, the latest centre of true Christianity, after Rome and Constantinople. This idea made conquest ...

A 3.7-magnitude earthquake struck the Sea of Marmara, with its epicenter off the coast of Heraclea, located west of the epicenter of the 6.2-magnitude earthquake that occurred near Istanbul on April ...