Virtual Hagia Sophia Reconstruction

[Presbyter3]

"Reconstruction" would mean recreating the church as it was originally meant to look. What is the benefit of simply computerizing the way it looks today? This is a waste.

[Jacksongirl13]

Why Turks destroyed her? I mean okay maybe they have different religion but they hadn't any right to built mosques or even to destroy frescoes..The Hagia Sophia built for Christians not for Muslims.. You have to admit this..Did they imagined the mistake who they did??

[remali2013]

it is not a museum aw Turks want to call it . IT IS A MONUMENT. They are extremelly afraid to call it as such and they have their reasons that I understand......But we all know by common sence that a museum is the building that includes the exhibits...A building like Agia sofia or the Parthenon or the Colosieum are monuments ....not buildings....It is like calling Stonehenge......a museum instead of a monument ....Simply rediculus ......

[thenightwatchman3]

Can anyone tell me what the black discs say on them? Thanks.

[vizitor]

how funny,yes all the world thad today istanbul is ancient constantinopla,but this is a already a history , otoman imperia was allso in a 3 continents but today is just anatolia and small part of europe,way is this all fashism and rasism,turks,greeks ,armenians ,even spanish they are so similar ich other and the ever question of GOD!! God is one for christians and muslims it is the seem God the seem personalitty !

[ynsemred]

You are starving. Greece has become the scum of the EU ! u will need money for reconstruction. Where will you borrow? LMAO !

[asteris78]

μογγολοι τουρκοι 

[bombardus]

Well at least the Spanish got the MOORS Mosque in Córdoba soon after Constantinople was taken and along with the Hagia Sophia. a Catholicism recover Victory!

[EleazarYoshua]

@bombardus.......

Anywhere and anyhow, you are losing bit by bit the muslim..... This is what you proud to be yours?

[bombardus]

@EleazarYoshua

lol nice jokes i almost cried. Just dont get too comfortable in our Christan lands because we(Catholics) will make a come back and wont tolerate that non sense.

me to become muslim soon if that is what you were trying to say? Ask someone else who is weak minded. the Turks took the advantage when the Byzantines were weak. But in the west the Spanish had enough of this Muslim Bullshit in their homelands and soon kick the moors out of Iberia.

[arkinfire]

When I was in Istanbul, I visit both Hagia Sophia and Blue Mosque. There is a park between them. I stood right on the middle and look these two great building. They look like two old friends greeting each other. I am a Muslim Turk and  I like to see Hagia Sophia open back to service for both Muslims and Christians. I think that what humanity needs.

[Mauromoustakos]

@arkinfire

What you think is irrelevant, because Hagia Sofia is not yours to decide.

The conqueror and the conquered can never be described as friends. The builting of this mosque next to Agia Sofia was done as a gesture of conquest, and it can never be seen as something different.

And don't forget to send me your computer, because I have decided to be friends with you.

-.

[arkinfire]

@Mauromoustakos I am sorry for you. The hate is deep in your hearth. Why? Because some body told you so? Move on as we did!!

[Mauromoustakos]

@arkinfire You haven't send me your computer, yet. Why? Didn't I told you that we are now friends, and so I will from now on share your computer?

The Scythians of the East overtook Asia Minor and Constantinople. Currently, the Turkish barbarians army is occupying Cyprus. They are killing Kurdistan. So..., you cannot comfort yourself that somebody told me anything. It is a real situation. Speaking for friendship without changing turkish aggresion, is very characteristic of turkish chauvinism.

[hurricaneomega]

you forgot the icons :(

[Athlon2010]

i see only dirty arab stuff

[aporia82]

@Athlon2010 you look at that monumental building and only see that? I feel sorry for you.

[kyriacos40]

Take note America dont let them build a mosque on ground zero where 9/11 happened.Look at Hagia Sofia they made it into a mosque to show thier victory, they take anything of importance to christain people or western culture and destroy it.ItS a deliberit slap in the face,historicaly when they occupied Greece they bult a mosque at one time in the parthenon itself.Very hateful religion my opinion

[robothedgehog]

@kyriacos40 lol but they tryed to blast the alter doors open with c4 durring the 70's but if you look up the doors are cealed shut by a miricle and wont open till the city is retake in 2024 they couldnt leave a scratch on simple wooden doors with a pack of c4 lol so NOW they call it a meusum to hide their shame they couldnt use it as a mosque lol

[Benjaminwolf]

Unfortunately this is not a "reconstruction." It is only a virtual image of what the Hagia Sophia looks like today.

I would like to see a reconstruction that would wipe away the changes of nearly 1500 years.

[arizonafb]

Love your enemy..

[lynnejazz1]

Although i agree that city and this church, would be better in the hands of the greeks. The Ottoman Turks are only the killing blow in the long slow death of the empire, if anyone, blame the 1204 4th crusade which desecrated the Church and even sat a prostitute on the patriarch's throne. don't be hating other religions without reason.

[lynnejazz1]

Although i fully agree that city and this, the most beautiful church on earth, would be better in the hands of the greeks. The Ottoman Turks are only the killing blow in the long slow death of the empire, if anyone, blame the 1204 4th crusade which desecrated the Church and even sat a prostitute on the patriarch's throne. don't be hating other religions just because they happen to have a city which you like.

[jameslasalle]

Very cool.

[zipcode61]

MIRALab

Why you show us this arrabic signs of a retard faschist islamic sight of things whitch are completely strange to AGIA SOFIA?

If this want to be a reconstruction you have to present this unique building as that what it was build for, an orthodox greek church, and nothing else!

[DRDNIBOY]

Islam is evil. Islam and its followers have done NOTHING but desecrate and destroy. Long live Orthodox Christianity!

[Alexwa13]

I agree! If they want to reconstruct virtually the Hagia Sophia, they should do it as a Orthodox chruch. That's what it is! they are wrong to make it like a mosque! lol

[wellwellwellhello]

@DRDNIBOY unfortunatley the ottoman empire destroyed and segmented religions...KNOWN FACT. But Orthodoxy and its knowledge has survived. Its created Europe what it is today.

[lynnejazz1]

@DRDNIBOY in fact, this is highly untrue, many of the writings of the great ancient philosophers, historians, and inventors come doown to us rewritten and preserved by MUSLIM scholars. for much of the medieval and dark ages the east, and islam, was far more advanced than we in the west, in comparison we were utter barbarians. you are focusing on the bad side, which every major religion has, and shying away from thier other good contributions.

[Jacksongirl13]

@DRDNIBOY I completely agree with you..

[ginterka381996]

@DRDNIBOY Im roman-catholic.You are right! Ave Christi!:) Stop the islamisation of Europe!

[felisdomesticus5676]

I'm talking about the Roman "Catholics"!

[felisdomesticus5676]

Well the Franks, Venetans and Romans screwed Byzantine waaay before the Ottomans. Byzantine was already a dead empire and surrounded with enemies. They were literally starving.

[frog112]

romans? the byzantines were the romans..

[wellwellwellhello]

@frog112 GREEEK WRITING> CATHOLICS CAME ABOUT BECAUSE THEY MADE THE POPE> THEY THINK HE HAS THE ONLY LINK TO GOD>>>>BULLSHIT. Byzantine is greek. Knowledge is from them!!!!

[TheSacredHeart2]

@wellwellwellhello, Jesus created the office of the Pope.

[wellwellwellhello]

@TheSacredHeart2 jesus did not. mortal man with power in his mind did. the pope is not the only person who has direct contact with god. It is every one of us. the holy grail is our dna. . the pinial gland or the pine cone. we all have connection to the higher source.

[TheSacredHeart2]

Jesus made Saint Peter the leader of the Apostles, thereby giving all His power and authority to Saint Peter to govern the Apostles. after Saint Peter died, the Apostles gathered together and elected a new superior. It is no different that when a Pope (if there was a true one, that is) dies, and all the Bishops elect a new Pope. With this in mind, there is no reason not to believe in the Office of Pope.

[macedongreek]

the music belongs to Ara Dinkjan. You may check out Eleftheria Arvanitaki, the Greek singer.

[drinkIrun]

Music is perfect. I think from Ahmet Kaya, Agladikca.

How can i find this file mp3 or other formats.

Please help me...

[Aeschylus]

For the music, try (among others)...

watch?v=G_pkKc3gfzI

watch?v=YJb5bJD1JcQ

watch?v=2Tlb_qhh3R8

He's Armenian and very good. Enjoy!

[omgsawyer]

yeah...te song is called "menw ektos-eleutheria arvanitaki"..the music is by an amrenian artist...the singer is greek...amazing!!!

[fromwilliams]

Force of Arms, in Latin referred to as Vi et Armis or Armorum VI, in which ownership has always been established by force; originally by the "Force of Arms" and latterly by the force of law. We are all descendants and have become the successors in title to the goods taken from our ancestors by 'Force of Arms". As stated The Hagia Sophia belongs rightfully to the Turkish Government and therefore they are under no moral obligations.

[fromwilliams]

"Force of Arms" is a completely legitimate way of transferring ownership of territory, treasures and artifacts etc, even when good guys lose. Just ask the Americans they are experts on "Force of Arms". The Hagia Sophia belongs rightfully to the Turkish Government and therefore they are under no moral obligations.

[adalake]

This is no reconstruction. This is a computer graphic of the desecration of the Christian Hagia Sophia. This building was created by Christians and stolen by muslims from central asia who call themselves turks. They are criminals and occupiers. They have desecrated the ancient Church of the Hagia Sophia. It is not theirs, it belongs to the ancient Greek Christians who built it. The turks occupy this land. They are not the natives of this country.....and they know it.

[drinkIrun]

Ha ha ha Turks stolen Istanbul !

They built old Constanstionple that sacked by bloodthirsty Crusaders. We flourished it agian. We saved Hagia Sophia, Hagia Eirene, Yerebatan Basillica etc. etc. Who is native here? Romans, Trojans, Hitites, Luwians. who?

[tsareevich]

No, they haven't stolen "Istanbul"... There is no such thing as "Istanbul". The name of the city is CONSTANTINOPLE, and it always was and will be Greek city...

Just like Kosovo and Metohia will always be Serbian...

Just like Kiev is Russian....

Greetings to brothers Greeks from Serbia!

[azmhyr]

"occupied", right.

since 600 years. should be enough for them to get over it already?

Besides, they already recognize all of our borders.

So, I don't think that it is somehow smart to start shit around our vicinity while Europe doesn't have a real army to deal with us anyways.

[7Vails]

@adalake Sorry to burst your bubble But it was not the Muslims who desecrated the Church (thought they did turn it into a mosque.)NOR the Venetian whom the Turks had a love Hate relationship with for many Moons. It was the Crusaders

Who Desecrated the Church. including pissing on Holly Objects & Dropping their load on the floor. They also Plundered the church!

[timothas2008]

Not unless I nuke MeKKKa and thosae Nazis

[samanthaspark]

What is this music...I know it from somewhere.

[timothas2008]

We will nuke TurKKKey

HAGIA SOPHIA WILL BE A CHUrch Soon or meKKKKa willl burn

[mammaTurki]

no,

vatikano will become a mosque and we will burn all of europe soon...

[Fiorentina222]

no way! infact all of europe is behind greece to take back constantinople. we dont want an istanbul infested by muslims and mosques... we want constantinople back the churches back the mosques burnt the muslims OUT and europe restored!

[sleazypig]

if you nuke turkey that would include nuking hagia sophia. thats really brilliant. beasides you guys don't have any real military anyway

[gaastra12]

ONE DAY, COMRADES, BROTHERS, GREECE WILL RULE OVER ANATOLIA AND THEIR REAL CAPITAL CITY, CONSTANTINOPOLIS. we will remove the scum, and get our belonged lands back! the East Roman Empire will rise again! fuck the islam!

[kigarian]

And that day we will stand just front of you to protect what Prophet consigned us, till our last blood fleck!Anatolia and Sophia will never be yours again!You've just lost that when you confoundede from true way!

[marilynsweety]

god decided hagia sophia to be yours and not greek just because he wanted to turn you into christians and that is already happening.. moameth himself turn to christianity some years before his death and his tump is undergroud in a christian church, among the tumps of byzantian emperors.. so sophia may not be greek at the posetion, but it's christian power stil exists..

[Greatmk]

It is eastern roman empire,not greek,greeks are gypsies.

[gaastra12]

yes but they whare formally ALL greek. also the culture and language was greek. gypsies whare romanians, a tribe that was greek and slavic.

[Greatmk]

You are talking right out of your ass,that was a multi national empire that had hundreds od peoples the language was KOINE,it was an official trading and diplomacy language of the ancient world and nearly all of the emperors were not greek.Everyone in the empire was equal,you have to much propaganda in greece,i know this stuf i study history

[gaastra12]

the army was multi national yes like the varangian guard but it was all greece my friend. the byzantines whare greeks. the now greek orthodox culture is exactly the same as the byzantine culture dumbass. if u really study history you would have known you greek hating monkeydonkian aka macedonian slavic fuck.

[CASTRER]

Oh are u matsabraskan?the land of idiots

[Greatmk]

What,the truth doesn't sound good?The country was called Roman Empire or Romania,nobody living there called him self anything different then a Roman,not a greek not a helene,nothing.

[CASTRER]

Yeah sure,relax drink some water and open books.(read them to).

[Greatmk]

Where do you study history from,a porn store?

I study history you damn moron,educate yourself before the world laughs at you.

[CASTRER]

Blah blah blah,hey mate u think ur opinion is important?U are from a country named fyrom with a japanese ww2 flag,how do u even dare to talk?

[jimihendrix1967]

Anatolia was an Eastern Roman empire land. Not Greek. Greece was an Eastern also Western Roman Empire too. Anatolia didnt belong to you. You are very few in numbers. You did not lose your blood for these lands but we did. You can't call a place "country" if nobody died for. So you have to attack us with your small numbers the take our lands again anyway. Constatninopolis was never Greek but Roman. Read some history idiot.

[gaastra12]

roman is not a race itself. its made up by the latin meditterean tribes, but it started with the ethnic group that lived on the italian peninsula. and that ethnic group was a mix of the people who lived there and greek colonists. thats why rome and all its art form look like greek. but the empire later on became multi cultural since many lands were conquered, and those people living there got romanized. this counts for the slavs a bit also. so romans are basicly greeks as origin also and --

[gaastra12]

--part 2 -- and also because the greek peninsula was conquered, so it became under roman land. and look at the culture of constantinopolis, its all greek orthodox. nobody lived in west anatolia. greek settlers of the king byzas got there first and made the city of byzantium called after their king. and much decades later it got under roman borders. learn the history of byzantium dumbass. and the east part of anatolia is kurdish, and armenian.

[adalake]

It was only called Roman by those who didn't know any better. The people who built the Hagia Sophia were Greek and that is a well known fact. Just as it is well known that Turks came from central asia and that they murdered more than one and a half million Christian Armenians. turks are deceitful liars who invent a history which was never theirs. Byzantium was Greek and it was Christian long before turks even knew the land. You are occupiers and nothing else.

[gerardaddict]

It's very sad to hear that Hagia Sophia was vandalized by turning it into a mosque and then into a museum.

[Espero26]

one day greece will take back this land and make it christian again... knock down those evil minarets and make hagia sofa beautifull again.

[felisdomesticus5676]

One day? When? and with what kind of army? HAHAHAHAH!

[Por0]

The Hagia Sophia belongs to the Orthodox, not to the muslims nor to the secularists. Return Hagia Sophia, open the Halki seminary, stop persecuting the greeks and other minorities; and you'll maby get into the EU.

[andrant83]

wonderfull video where could we found this software

[iamartem]

Great great great great video!

[gepap099]

Very good video about the famous church of "Hagia Sofia" of Constantinople.

[efe122]

Thank you, i also agree with " its always difficult being successful" .... Allah bless =]

[efe122]

i no much about ancient and medievla history

[efe122]

it should be a mosque again, forget muuseum, turkish blood did not fall so it could be a museum.... HAHAHAHAHA GREEKS TAKING TI ABCK... OOO, HAHAHAHAH,

let me break it down

populution

greece -10-15 million

turkey 70-80 million

army

greece- 1-4 million at most urgent form of mobilizaiton

turkey 25 -40 million at most urgent form of mobilization

[narses1571]

they are not alone, and you would do well to remember that peadophile worshiper. after WW1 my country took constantinople from you with such ease it was laughable. next time we wont give it back we'll return it to orthodox, just like we took palestine from you and gave it to the jews. fear us.

[efe122]

british took constantinople form us,... not greece, it was planned to be givne to u guys but we fucked u over..

remember.. we ruled you for 700 years, next time we wont return it to u orthodx, it will be muslim... arabs screwed us over by believing british and now palestinians and suffering that sin.

[efe122]

and dont call it by its ancient name, you dont see me calling florence- arretium ... or london ludmunum

IT IS ISTANBUL

[narses1571]

you lazy bastard. all you had to do was click on my profile to see where i was from. im not greek, i am british. and you can call london what you like im from manchester.

[efe122]

The name Manchester originates from the Ancient Roman name Mamucium...

sorry then , u are not of the backstabber people, but of the "ruin the whole world with scorched earth imperialist might" people

[efe122]

and why would you call me a pedolphile worshipper? dont worry i no wat it means

[narses1571]

sorry about the peadophile thing i thought you was a follower of mohammed, maybe your Zoroastrian. im impressed with you knowing manchesters originalname though. and if we are the ruin of the world then turks are the ruin of the balkans. we were just on a different scale thats all. whos the quote by? ("ruin the whole world etc...?"

[efe122]

i am muslim... but there is no pedophilia in our culture. There is no need to quote: By the reign of Queen Victoria the British Empire had gained direct political control of about two fifths of the world's population and about one quarter of its land area, and hegemony over nominally independent areas such as parts of China and South America

[narses1571]

the strange thing is in many ways we are opposite, muslim christian ETC. but england was the biggest coloniser of our world and likewise turks for your world, its allways difficult being succesful. u seem ok. god bless.

[Cojpe]

Oh I see you two becoming a good friends.

I am so glad about you succeful nations get along.

Of course he is ok, arent they all?

And please apologise once more for calling him pedophile worshiper, he told you that there is no pedophilia in his culture, dont insult islam please.

See how much they respect us?

See how they improve our churches like church on this video.

You should ask him if he allowes you to suck his dick as well I am sure he would be glad to let you do it.

[gepap099]

70.000.000 - 30.000.000 KURDS = 40.000.000 - 10.000.000 CRYPTOCHRISTIAN GREEKS = 30.000.000 - 5.000.000 Other minorities = 25.000.000 of third world poor turkey that lives 100 years before.

[nafsika89]

just wait and see who is gonna laugh last.kostantinoupolis was greek & will end up being greek.hagia sofia was built to be a greek church & will end up being a greek church.i can't wait the day when greece will take back kostantinoupolis &this will happen with the help of russia.then,it would come the time that russia,serbia & greece will impose the orthodox christianity.have u ever read the books of orthodoxy?!if not just take a look at them.u'll find out many things

[theriseofthefall]

Will the Hagia Sophia Cathedral ever be returned to the Orthodox Church?

[thorstone1]

probably not for a very long time. the turks won't give it up, which is understandable...i guess