‘HAGIA SOPHIA IS A POWERFUL POLITICAL SYMBOL’

PAVLOS PAPADOPOULOS Η Καθημερινή

‘Every element of the famed Byzantine monument was designed to invoke a sense of the divine. ‘The interior with is temporal play of light mobilizes the mytho-poetic power of architecture,’ says Bissera Pentcheva.
Bissera Pentcheva, a professor of classics at Stanford University, is an internationally renowned scholar on Hagia Sophia. Her book “Hagia Sophia: Sound, Space and Spirit in Byzantium” received the 2018 Award in Historical Studies from the American Academy of Religion.