Wow, simply amazing! Take 4 minutes out of your day and give this a listen. The sounds of Hagia Sophia the way it would have sounded over 500 years ago. Listen below…
7 thoughts on “Listen: The Sound of Hagia Sophia, 500+ Years Ago”
And you wouldn’t be sitting – you’d be standing. Pews were a Protestant invention. Even in the West, there were no pews or chairs. And instruments were banned by the Christian Church, East and West.. Not until the 1500’s did instruments start to be brought into the Western Church, against the canons of the Church
On Friday Hagia Sophia closed as a museum and opened as a mosque – a new carpet covering the polished marble floors, the mosaics obscured, for the first time in 85 years the building closed to tourists for Friday prayers.
Kevin Childs has written a piece for the Independent, part panegyric, part elegy for the great museum it once was.
Absolutely beautiful & stunning! Thank you Thank you! A blessing gift tio sing there!
Capella Romana has made a whole album of this music. Whoops! That’s who it’s about. and it’s AH-yi-a so-FI-a. He keeps mispronouncing it.
And you wouldn’t be sitting – you’d be standing. Pews were a Protestant invention. Even in the West, there were no pews or chairs. And instruments were banned by the Christian Church, East and West.. Not until the 1500’s did instruments start to be brought into the Western Church, against the canons of the Church
HEAVENLY (caps for emphasis!
It’s sacrilege to turn Ayia Sophia into a mosque. It was never built as a mosque. One day I hope it becomes Ayia Sophia and we can all go.
This is sooo beautiful, I don’t have words for this bizantine music in the Hagia Sofia. Thank you for this!
On Friday Hagia Sophia closed as a museum and opened as a mosque – a new carpet covering the polished marble floors, the mosaics obscured, for the first time in 85 years the building closed to tourists for Friday prayers.
Kevin Childs has written a piece for the Independent, part panegyric, part elegy for the great museum it once was.
Here it is:
https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/long-reads/hagia-sophia-mosque-erdogan-turkey-istanbul-secularism-museum-a9624376.html
It’s a Long Read.
I’ve been to Hagia Sophia countless times. I loved it there. Part of the reason for that is that it was not a place of worship.
It’s funny how much certain buildings can affect us. I feel rather mournful, just as the hardliners in Turkey are probably elated.
You’ll be pleased to have read this.