US-State Department: We call on the Turkish government to maintain Hagia Sophia as a World Heritage Site
The American Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, Sam Brownback, has called on the Turkish government to maintain Hagia ...
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
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Greek Minister of Culture to UNESCO Member States: Hagia Sophia should not be converted into a mosque
Greek Minister of Culture has been sending letters to UNESCO member states on Turkish aspirations for Hagia Sophia. "It should ...
UNESCO put the brakes on Erdogan: Hagia Sophia is a World Cultural Monument
The telephone communication of Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Dendias, during his stay in Paris, with the Director-General of ...
Archbishop of Athens: Landmark decision to include psaltic art in UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List
Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece met this morning the members of the Federation of Greek Chanters' Associations (OMSIE). ...
Byzantine chant joins UNESCO list on intangible cultural heritage
UNESCO has inscribed Byzantine chant in Cyprus and Greece on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, In ...
UNESCO Adds Russia’s Ancient Pskov Churches to World Heritage List
Seventeen unique buildings in the northwest Russian city of Pskov were among the latest cultural gems to join UNESCO’s list ...
The site of the Birthplace of Jesus in Bethlehem removed from the List of World Heritage in Danger
The World Heritage Committee, meeting in Baku since 30 June, has decided to remove the Birthplace of Jesus: the Church ...
Interventions in Delos and the Monastery of Daphni, UNESCO World Heritage Sites
Two major projects are part of the call for "Protection, restoration and promotion of archaeological sites and monuments of great ...
Papachristopoulou-Tzitzikosta (UNESCO): We are impressed by what Erdogan said about Hagia Sofia
"I am impressed by what Erdogan said about Hagia Sophia, because every country wants its monuments to be included in ...
Byzantine Monuments To Be Protected by New Global Charter
An agreement called “The Charter for the Protection of the Byzantine Heritage Monuments” was unanimously ratified this weekend after a ...
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