The Dedication of Hagia Sophia
Feast · dedication
- 23 December (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Justinian's Great Church, dedicated on 27 December 537 and again on 24 December 563 after the first dome fell. The Synaxarion keeps its memory in the days before the Nativity.
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Commemorating
- Archbishop of Constantinople (Ecumenical Patriarch) patronal
- Constantinople dedicated
Where this is recorded
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