Talk:Hagia Irene

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Move
Shouldn't this moved to the Church of Saint Irene? --Ghirla | talk 14:43, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Why? It is the most famous building of this name. Literature about the Byzantine Empire uses this name. --Valentinian 10:54, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I posed the question when the article still sat at Saint Irene Museum. I have moved the article to its present name since then. I'm still concerned about the propriety of the name for Ayasofya museum, however. --Ghirla | talk 10:59, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
 * A bit belated and it's fixed now, but "Saint Irene" isn't really accurate anyway, since the church is dedicated to Holy Peace (or Divine Peace), not to a saint named Irene ("hagia" literally means "holy", though it's also used as an honorific for saints). Much like Hagia Sophia is dedicated to Holy Wisdom, not to a saint named Sophia. --Delirium (talk) 10:05, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Techinically Saint could be used as it means Holy coming from Sanctus but in English that would be confusing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.140.49.44 (talk) 01:02, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Actually shouldn't this be moved to "Hagia Irene, Constantinople" or "Hagia Irene, Istanbul" considering there are multiple churches with this name? Same goes for "Hagia Sophia". Gryffindor 19:40, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
 * No, per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. (Yes, I know that this is an over two year old question, but they have a habit, if not answered, of inspiring people to make mistakes.) oknazevad (talk) 02:58, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Sarcophagi
of Constantine the Great and his son Constantius II are in the Hagia Irene Church. Böri (talk) 14:25, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Adding in detail
Hi there, I was thinking of adding some more detail to this page because it's a little sparse. I had a few ideas of adding in some more information about its architecture and it's overall history and what it's been used for. These some of the sources I am going to be using: Pyhrr, Stuart. W. "European Armor from the Imperial Ottoman Arsenal." Metropolitan Museum Journal, vol. 24, 1989, pp. 85-116

Musilek, Josef, Lubos Podolka, and Monika Karkova, "The Unique Construction of the Church of Hagia Irene in Istanbul for The Teaching of Byzantine Architecture." Priced Engineering, 161 (2016): 1745-750. Web.

Millingen, Alexander Van, Ramsey Traquair, Walter S. George, and Arthur e. Henderson. Byzantine churches in Constantinople: their history and architecture. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1912. Print.

Freely, John, and A.S. Cakmak. Byzantine monuments of Istanbul. Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 2010. Print.

Bogdanovic Jelena, "Hagia Eirene", 2008, Encyclopedia of the Hellenic World, Constantinople

"Church of Hagia Eirene" The Byzantine Legacy. Web.

Mkahler (talk) 04:51, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: The Middle Ages
— Assignment last updated by KandersonILSTU (talk) 00:57, 10 September 2023 (UTC)

Hello. I am doing quite a bit of restructuring to this article, as there is not a whole lot of detail on the church itself before it was turned into an armory/museum by the Ottomans. Will summarize the edits once I have made them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by KandersonILSTU (talk • contribs) 05:13, 10 December 2023 (UTC)