Holy Wisdom and Holy Apostles of Constantinople: From imperial sanctuaries to symbols of conquest. The symbolical use of memory by the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires
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The churches of the Holy Wisdom and of the Holy Apostles, founded by the Constantinian dynasty in the context of a creative synthesis of Imperial Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian traditions, left a deep imprint on the history and urban organization of Constantinople as the City’s most important imperial sanctuaries. After the Fall of 1453, the conversion of Hagia Sophia and the replacement of the Holy Apostles and the imperial mausoleums by the Conqueror’s Mosque transformed them into diachronic symbols of the Ottoman conquest and of the triumph of Islam.
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ΧΑΤΖΗΛΑΖΑΡΟΥ (Dimitrios Th. CHATZILAZAROU) Δ. Θ. (2023). Holy Wisdom and Holy Apostles of Constantinople: From imperial sanctuaries to symbols of conquest. The symbolical use of memory by the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires. Deltion of the Christian Archaeological Society, 43, 401–414. https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.34404
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