The Hagia Irene
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 มี.ค. 2024
- The Hagia Irene is the second largest surviving Byzantine church in Istanbul.
This video is part of a series - 'The History of Byzantium goes to Istanbul.' In 2018 the listeners of the podcast funded a Kickstarter to send me to Istanbul. I documented many of the surviving Byzantine sites and have made videos about them.
I am now able to offer tours to Istanbul (and beyond) for listeners of the podcast. Email me if you'd like to know more (thehistoryofbyzantium at gmail.com).
Video edited by / suhlefilm
For more information about Byzantine Constantinople visit www.thebyzantinelegacy.com/. It's a fantastic website providing breakdowns of the Byzantine buildings that can still be seen today and there you'll find most of the still images and sketches used in these videos.
'The History of Byzantium' is a podcast telling the story of the Roman Empire from 476 AD to 1453. The podcast home page is here thehistoryofbyzantium.com/ and you can support the show at / historyofbyzantium
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Very interesting. I was able to get in the church when I visited Istanbul a couple of decades ago. It was not open to the public but while I was visiting the palace I noticed that the door of the church was open. I walked in and looked around a bit. There were workmen setting up chairs. I guess for an upcoming concert or something. Thanks for the video.
Was just there this past January (2024). A lot of it is now roped off, so you can only walk along the outer 'corridors' of the ground floor, not into the main area. Looked quite neglected to me, so I was surprised to learn in your video that it used to be used for concerts. My wife and I were the only ones there other than a lonely looking guard, though this was the off-season. Anyway, it was nice to come across a building that still felt like a Byzantine Church. Very well done video, btw.
They knew how to build back then.
Choniates says the church also survived a fire (August 19, 1203) so intense ships sailing past in the Bosphorus were set on fire.
Love the podcast and your videos.
I’ve visited it in September 2020 and again in October 2023 and I love it, and I love Topkapi. Thanks for sharing your video.
I was lucky enough to get into to see the Hagia Irene when it was briefly open in 2009. I was the only person there . Wandered up into the gallery. The courtyard was closed. The sun light through a window caught a fragment of mosaic which glittered once again. Magical.
I'm very jealous, I've never been upstairs
I really enjoyed that. Thank you. A nice clear description
Excellent video!
awesome video, thanks a lot
Hey Robin! I'm currently going over Mike's Podcast again, and soon will be going on to yours next, I was wondering if it might be possible for you to upload yours on TH-cam as well in a playlist, that way TH-cam premium members can download it to their devices and listen to it while biking around without internet, not sure how you feel about it but it is how I listen to The History of Rome religiously everyday, and I'm sure it would help get more viewers for the podcast overall, give it a thought, and thanks for all your hard work over the years towards these studies
Yes I am looking into doing this. I'm just a bit worried about how long it will take.
we visited hagia Irene in April 2023. it was beautiful rom the outside bu i have wondered why it is not restored from the inside
Thanks for this. Informative but not too long.
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Interesting
Topkapı is spelled with an undotted i. So is pronounced "top kapuh"-- not "top kap ee". It means "ball gate" in Turkish. Just like Turk drink rakı is pronounced rak-uh, not rak ee.
Wasn’t the Church of the Holy Apostles and St Polyeuktos bigger than Hagia Irene?
Yes C of the HA, not sure about Polyeuktos, possibly. But if I said it wrong, apologies, I meant biggest surviving church
They want to make it moscue 😂😂 or the did already ! People people with the fall of Constantinople started the Islamization of Europe
I know English natives are hopeless with pronunciation but Hajia....
Let’s pronounce in Hadidja or Hatchitcha.
I heard a Turkish academic pronounce it as "Aya" which is very melodic.
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It's an absolute shame the Brits had Constantinople after WWI and the Greeks had taken the rest of European Turkey (also the greek parts of Anatolia) but the Brits gave it up, a once in History chance to return it to It's rightful owners...squandered.
Greeks also were too greedy and rather than staying in the lands they freed and legally given to them in the treaty of Sèvres (Ionia) they wanted to march all the way to Ankara, straining their resources and eventually the Greek army collapsed
There is no European Turkey. Paradoxon. The geographic land is Asia Minor. Turkey is not Europe, and will not be in the future.
@olbiomoiros yes, very true, plus "the monkey bite heard around the world" turned their lies against them... they could have had the entire Aegean coast all the Islands and Constantinople... what a disaster, what a list opportunity... it is such a tragedy. Even with all that, I feel like the Brits still could have given them Constantinople and kept a base there to defend it, but for some reason they always side with the Turks vs Orthodox Christians/Eastern Europeans (ever since the Greek War of independence, which they sided with Greeks.
Hahahaha cry harder
I’m glad it stayed in Turkish hands. Greeks and their weak management of their economy would’ve ruined Ionia and Constantinople
Note on the Janissaries: generations of kidnapped European Christian boys, enslaved by the Ottomans, forcibly converted to Islam and raised as slave-soldiers of the Sultan. When are we gonna hear about reparations from the Turks????
Lol. What do modern-day Turks have to do with this? Every nation on this planet has at one point in history committed atrocities. You cannot hold their supposed descendants accountable for every deed of their distant forefathers, that would be impractical, realistically impossible, and overall just stupid. Better to invest energy and resources into spreading awareness and making sure it never happens again. Besides, this is a neutral academic channel intended for learning. If you want to discuss your bitter political ideas, take them someplace else.
You want money so much ha?
Recognition of the Greek genocide -massacres and death marches in Pontus, massacres against Pontic Greek representatives in Amaseia (Amasya), deportation of Greeks from Sampsounta (Samsun), massacres in the 20th century in: Smyrna (Izmir), Phocaia (Foce), Kydonies (Aivalik), Nikaia (Iznik) and Nikomedeia (Izmit), the massacres in the 19th century in Cyprus, Crete and Chios, the Porgroms in Konstantinoupolis (Istanbul) in 1955, varlik vergisi, unequal taxes, labour battalions (slavery). Also recognition of the Armenian genocide and the Hamidian massacres.
@@olbiomoiros do you recognize the tripolitsa massacre where you killed thousands of civilian turks and jews? What about the massacres you commited in Anatolia? How about the massacres of the Latins?
@@olbiomoirosyunanlıların İstanbulda ne işi vardı?
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