Istanbul

Foreign tourists entering the former Orthodox Christian cathedral of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul will have to pay an entrance fee of 25 euros ($27) starting on Monday. Turkish nationals visiting for religious worship will continue to enter for free from...

The 130-year-old Panagia Evangelistria Greek Orthodox Church in Istanbul is being restored and is set to reopen in 2024, the Turkish daily Hurriyet reports. Constructed in 1893 by the Greek Community of Beyoğlu, the place of worship has suffered damage...

Panagia Vefa is a Greek Orthodox church in Istanbul when on the first day of each month people of all faiths go to make a wish

A video from 2022 that recently came to light shows fragments falling on visitors from the dome of the Hagia Sophia, the former epicenter of Christian worship in Constantinople, today's Istanbul. The footage released by the Turkish newspaper, BirGün, raises...

Hagia Sophia, the epicenter of Christian worship at Constantinople (now Istanbul), is in danger of collapse due to the vast number of visitors a Turkish expert warned. The Hagia Sophia, which has served as an Orthodox cathedral, an Ottoman mosque,...

In 1955, the Greek population of the city of Istanbul were the victims of a heinous pogrom that resulted in the suffering and death of many.

Beneath the ruins of an ancient Christian church in Istanbul, formerly known as Constantinople, archaeologists have made a new discovery. They have uncovered underground rooms and a tunnel that dates back 1,500 years to the earliest period of the...

Archaeologists from the Istanbul Archaeology Museums have been excavating the ancient  Byzantine Church of St. Polyeuktos in the Saraçhane neighborhood of Istanbul, Turkey. The church was built between AD 524 and 527 by Anicia Juliana, a Roman princess during the...

Pole vaulter Emmanouil Karalis won silver for Greece on Sunday at the European Indoor Championships that took place in Istanbul. The Greek champion came second in an ultra-tight competition that saw five men finish on a best of 5.80m. Karalis was...

Miltiadis (Miltos) Tentoglou claimed his third straight title with a jump of 8.30m at the indoor European Championships in Istanbul on Sunday. The Greek athlete becomes the first male long jumper to win three successive European indoor titles. Tentoglou also won...