- Type:
- Book Chapter
- Author:
- Benjamin Anderson
- Published:
- 2024
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
Accounts of the prominence of Hagia Sophia in Greek folklore have (under the influence of Michael Herzfeld’s study <italic>Ours Once More</italic>) emphasized irredentism: the desire, especially among intellectuals in the Kingdom of Greece, that the building be converted back into a church. This chapter reveals a different discourse, characteristic of the Greek communities of Constantinople, according to which a secret mass continued to be celebrated in the building despite its overt conversion to Muslim use. Hagia Sophia, in short, had never stopped being a church. Focusing on four authors (Patriarch Konstantios I, Skarlatos Byzantios, Jean Nicolaïdès and Eugène Michael Antoniades), this article explores how the emerging discourse of “folklore” provided a distinctive means for loyal Ottoman subjects to articulate the continuing Christian identity of Hagia Sophia.
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- What is "From the Mouth of Angels: Folkloric Hagia Sophia" about?
- Accounts of the prominence of Hagia Sophia in Greek folklore have (under the influence of Michael Herzfeld’s study <italicOurs Once More</italic) emphasized irredentism: the desire, especially among intellectuals in the Kingdom of Greece, that the building be converted back into a church.
- Who wrote "From the Mouth of Angels: Folkloric Hagia Sophia"?
- Benjamin Anderson