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Gaza farmer unearths Byzantine-era mosaic

Gaza Byzantine mosaic

Gaza Reuters An ornate Byzantine floor mosaic showing a variety of colourful birds and other animals has been discovered by chance in Gaza after a Palestinian farmer tried to plant new trees on his land. Salman al-Nabahin unearthed the relic six months ago while working in his olive orchard in Bureij refugee camp, about a […]

After Hagia Sophia, Turkey turns another museum into mosque

Turkey St Saviour in Chora1

Ankara, Turkey AP The Turkish Government formally converted a former Byzantine church into a mosque Friday, a move that came a month after it drew praise from the faithful and international opposition for similarly turning Istanbul’s landmark Hagia Sophia into a Muslim house of prayer. A decision by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, published in the […]

MUSIC: RECREATING THE SOUNDS OF AN ANCIENT GREEK CHURCH – IN LA

Byzantine music

ZARA ABRAMS reports that a recent recital on the campus of Saint Sophia Cathedral, was the first time ‘acoustic photocopies’ were used to recreate the experience of the Agia Sophia, one of the oldest churches in the Greek city of Thessaloniki, for a modern audience…