{"id":312334,"date":"2021-03-17T17:16:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T15:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=312334"},"modified":"2021-03-17T17:17:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T15:17:22","slug":"photo-competition-inspired-by-the-hagia-sophia-basilica-highlights-the-concept-of-wisdom-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/photo-competition-inspired-by-the-hagia-sophia-basilica-highlights-the-concept-of-wisdom-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo competition inspired by the Hagia Sophia basilica highlights the concept of &#8220;Wisdom of God&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (IAO) and Orthphoto.net launched last week a photography <a href=\"http:\/\/hagiasophia.orthphoto.net\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">competition<\/a> inspired by Constantinople&#8217;s Hagia Sophia Basilica (&#8220;The Church of the Holy Wisdom of God&#8221;). Participants are invited to send images of temples dedicated to the Wisdom of God from all over the world, be they Orthodox or from other Christian denominations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The contest is entitled &#8220;Hagia Sophia. The temples of Wisdom of God in history and in the world.&#8221; Participants are required to send images depicting the whole temple, not just details of it.<\/p>\n<p>Participation is tax-free and registration is open until May 31. Each participant can send six photos of the same church at most.<\/p>\n<p>The jury is made of photographers, theologians and communication experts from the Orthodox world &#8211; among them, Aurelian Iftimiu, Director of the Basilica News Agency of the Romanian Orthodox Patriarchate.<\/p>\n<p>The awards are worth between 100 and 500 de Euros. More details on the competition rules can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/hagiasophia.orthphoto.net\/regulations.php\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FHagiaSophiaTheTemplesOfWisdomOfGod%2Fposts%2F109194827903946&amp;width=500&amp;show_text=true&amp;appId=326166141191342&amp;height=336\" width=\"500\" height=\"336\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Purpose of the competition<\/h3>\n<p>The purpose is to highlight the concept of &#8220;Wisdom of God&#8221; in the modern world and to honour the temples dedicated to it throughout the centuries. The contest promotes the primary model of these temples: the Hagia Sophia Basilica built in Constantinople in the 6th century.<\/p>\n<p>Hagia Sophia was the world&#8217;s biggest cathedral for almost a millennium and it has remained a paradigmatic building for Christian Orthodox architecture.<\/p>\n<p>The basilica was not dedicated to a saint named Sophia, but to &#8220;The Wisdom of God&#8221;, which is the Divine Logos made flesh in the person of our Saviour Jesus Christ. In old Greek, <em>sophia<\/em> means &#8220;wisdom&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, when Turkish authorities repealed the museum status of this historic building and turned it into a mosque, Christians from all over the world felt offended.<\/p>\n<h3>About the organizers<\/h3>\n<p>The Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy was <a href=\"http:\/\/eiao.org\/\">established<\/a> 27 years ago at the initiative of the Greek Parliament and it includes delegates from over 30 countries.<\/p>\n<p>Orthphoto.net is an online global community of amateur and professional photographers interested in Orthodox Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/romanian-patriarchate-adds-its-voice-keep-hagia-sophia-a-museum\/\">Romanian Patriarchate adds its voice: Keep Hagia Sophia a museum<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/ecumenical-patriarch-thanks-patriarch-of-romania-for-solidarity-over-hagia-sophia-issue-the-church-of-gods-wisdom-belongs-to-all-humanity\/\">Ecumenical Patriarch thanks Patriarch of Romania for solidarity over Hagia Sophia issue: \u2018The Church of God\u2019s Wisdom belongs to all humanity\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Foto credit: Hagiasophia.orthphoto.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (IAO) and Orthphoto.net launched last week a photography competition inspired by Constantinople&#8217;s Hagia Sophia Basilica (&#8220;The Church of the Holy Wisdom of God&#8221;). Participants are invited to send images of temples dedicated to the Wisdom of God from all over the world, be they Orthodox or from other Christian denominations.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":311671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[13756,12906,10386,19033,14715],"class_list":["post-312334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultural-en","tag-hagia-sophia","tag-international-contest","tag-orthodox-news","tag-orthodox-photography","tag-photography"],"better_featured_image":{"id":311671,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1545,"height":868,"file":"2021\/03\/carousel-02-crop-2.jpg","sizes":{"medium":{"file":"carousel-02-crop-2-890x500.jpg","width":890,"height":500,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/carousel-02-crop-2-890x500.jpg"},"large":{"file":"carousel-02-crop-2-1024x575.jpg","width":1024,"height":575,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/carousel-02-crop-2-1024x575.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"carousel-02-crop-2-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/carousel-02-crop-2-360x360.jpg"},"1536x1536":{"file":"carousel-02-crop-2-1536x863.jpg","width":1536,"height":863,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/carousel-02-crop-2-1536x863.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"Maciej Bledowski","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":312334,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/carousel-02-crop-2.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312334\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=312334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312334\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311671\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=312334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=312334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=312334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}