N.
Lygeros
As cruel as barbarity
is, civilization resists and in the end it always wins. Hagia Sophia which is also
a monument of world heritage is a church, whether they want it or not. And it
is not the systems that change something. Since the sixth century thanks to
Anthemius and Isidore it has seen a little of everything.
It has crossed
through the centuries incessantly. Even when they wounded it with four
minarets, the church endured and continued its course as a martyr of
Christianity. So it was converted into a mosque and then in a museum. But the
spirit of the church wasn’t erased after so many centuries in the occupied
lands. Our church remains a symbol for the whole Hellenism that didn’t forget
anything from the past. Because even the mosque didn’t function religiously but
politically to demonstrate to everyone the muslim conquest and not to the
benefit of the faithful. For this reason it is ludicrous to see now and then protests
for it to operate as a mosque, since there is no need. Furthermore, it is
always an issue when they try to ruin a church in a religious sense. The church
remains and doesn’t forget. Our issue
then is more on why we don’t claim and actually dynamically for it to
re-operate as a church. Because the fanatics do not concern us when there is
genuine will. In Hagia Sophia we see simultaneously Hellenism and Christianity
due to history and this is how we ought to see Future Memory that changes the
barbaric context so that the humans, not only those who believe, but are also
faithful to the teachings of Christ, be
justified.
