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A tidbit info: Today's Hagia Sophia is version three of the original church. The original was made of wood and burned down. The second version was of stone and
by nashashmi 3y ago
A tidbit info: Today's Hagia Sophia is version three of the original church. The original was made of wood and burned down. The second version was of stone and collapsed in an earthquake. The third version took 20+ years to build.
Another tidbit: Hagia Sophia can be translated to english as Saint Sofia. It is pronounced in Turkish as Aya Sofia. Aya is from an arabic word that means "sign" like sign of god (similar to "aya"-tullah in Iran). The similarity between "Hagia" and "Aya" is so strong as though it follows the concept of changing the "j" sound to "h" or "y" sound. When applying that same rule to "Ayatollah", you could basically translate the word to "Saint of God". Every time I think of this, it gives me the jitters.
- kleton 3y agoAyasofya seems more likely to be a Turkish transliteration of Hagia Sofia, given it is pronounced exactly the same.
- kasabali 3y agotransliteration of Greek "Αγία", to be more specific.
- dizhn 3y agoProbably not since a lot of churches start with the name Aya in Turkish because they are named after saints. (Like this one: https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aya_%C4%B0rini https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aya_%C4%B0rini)
- nashashmi 3y agoAya Irene is from the Era preceding Ottomans. That word means "Peace". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagia_Irene?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagia_Irene?wprov=sfti1