Special Event
Churches of Constantinople
Constantinople, Turkey - May, 2004
Inside the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, the “iron” church, the group was amazed at how
everything was made from metal so that the building could be pre-fabricated in Austria and erected in
24 hours, a requirement by the civil authorities at the time it was built
The central interior dome of Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom), the Great Church of Christ, which functions as a museum today
Archimandrite Robert Taft, foremost scholar on Byzantine Liturgy, gave a short explanation of how liturgy was celebrated
in the ancient church
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