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The Church of Saint Irene (Greek: Ιερός Ναός Αγίας Ειρήνης, romanized: Ierós Naós Agías Irínis, lit. 'Sacred Temple of Saint Irene' Greek pronunciation: [aˈʝia iˈrini]), also known as Hagia Irene or Hagia Eirene, is an Eastern Orthodox church in the city of Athens, Greece, built on the site of an older medieval church, located on Aiolou Street.
The Hagia Irene church witnessed one of the most devastating episodes in the history of Constantinople as a city, which was the Nika Revolt in 532. Around the time of Justinian’s campaign of religious consolidation, [12] A riot broke out after a chariot race at the Hippodrome that nearly saw the emperor deposed.
The Church of Hagia Irene was the cathedral church of the Patriarchate before Hagia Sophia was completed in 360. In the year 330 the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great moved his residence to the town renaming it Nova Roma (Νέα Ῥώμη), or "New Rome". Thenceforth, the importance of the church there grew, along with the influence of its ...
A synthronon at Hagia Irene in Constantinople (modern Istanbul, Turkey). Synthronon (Greek: σύνθρονον; plural: σύνθρονα, synthrona) is a semicircular tiered structure at the back of the altar in the liturgical apse of an Eastern Orthodox church that combines benches reserved for the clergy, with the bishop's throne in the centre.
[Note 29] During Justinian's reign, the churches of St. Irene (536) and of the Holy Apostles (549) were rebuilt, as well as the church of St. Polyeuktes (527), the church of St. Sergius and Bacchus (536), and the unique aqueduct that brought water from the Kidaris River to Constantinople (its four two-story arches 36 m high were thrown over a ...
Hagia Irene is a former church, now a museum, in Istanbul. Commissioned in the 4th century , it ranks as the first church built in Constantinople , and has its original atrium . In 381 the First Council of Constantinople took place in the church.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan reconverted the historic Chora church, one of Istanbul's most celebrated Byzantine buildings, into a mosque on Friday, a month after opening the famed Hagia Sophia ...
For more than 700 years, the Church of the Holy Apostles was the second most important church in Constantinople, after that of the Holy Wisdom (Hagia Sophia).But whereas the church of the Holy Wisdom was in the city's oldest part, that of the Holy Apostles stood in the newer part of the expanded imperial capital, on the great thoroughfare called Mese Odós (English: Central Street), and became ...