The Agia Sophia Stadium ( pronounced [aˈʝa soˈfça] ), also known as OPAP Arena [4] for sponsorship reasons and as AEK Arena for UEFA competitions, is the home stadium of AEK Athens. With an all-seater capacity of 32,500 [2] it is the second largest football stadium overall in Greece. ΗΟΜΕ OPAP ARENA OPAP ARENA \\ CENTER OF SPORTS, CULTURE & MEMORY The AEK fans' big dream. The big AEK's debt to its history. The center of Sports, Culture & Memory, OPAP ARENA has already took shape, in order to host the dream of million AEK supporters. LOCATION : Nea Filadelfeia, Athens, Greece CAPACITY : 32,500 WATCH THE STADIUM'S OPENING
Design Agia Sophia
September 30, 2022 The Byzantine Eagle Has Landed by George Vardas 0 0 0 On 30 September the very spirit of Byzantium will be rekindled in Athens with the official opening of "Hagia Sophia", the new football stadium of AEK Athens, in Nea Filadelfeia. Agia Sofia Stadium Key facts Club: AEK FC | Capacity: 33,000 seats | Scheduled opening: 2021 | Status: under construction Description Agia Sofia Stadium currently under construction new stadium of AEK. It is being built at the site of their old Nikos Goumas Stadium, which they left in 2004 for OAKA Stadium as it failed to pass safety requirements. The 32,500-seater was built in the northern part of the Greek capital. Advertisement Get stadium news of the week directly to your inbox. See example In 1999, Athens was hit by an earthquake in which the then home of AEK Athens, Nikos Goumas Stadium, also known as Hagia Sophia, was damaged. The "Agia Sofia - OPAP Arena" will have more than 32,000 seats, all in yellow. The Museum of the History of AEK and the Museum of the History of Refugee Hellenism will be open 365 days a year. Two of the luxurious halls of the new stadium are already dedicated to Aristotle Onassis and Vassos Chatziioannou.
AEK Opened A New Stadium With A Victory! Meridian Sport Malta
Hagia Sophia ( lit. ' Holy Wisdom '; Turkish: Ayasofya; Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, romanized : Hagía Sophía; Latin: Sancta Sapientia ), officially the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque (Turkish: Ayasofya-i Kebir Cami-i Şerifi ), [3] is a mosque and a major cultural and historical site in Istanbul, Turkey. Agia Sophia will contain more historical names: apart from the gate to the fan sector (its designation will remain Gate 21), all entrances to the venue will bear the names of historical Greek cities in Asia Minor. The stadium is scheduled to open on September 17, the day of the religious holiday of Agia Sophia. © AEK FC Advertisement Category: History & Society Turkish: Ayasofya Latin: Sancta Sophia Also called: Church of the Holy Wisdom or Church of the Divine Wisdom The Hagia Sophia, Istanbul. Hagia Sophia The Hagia Sophia rising along the shore of the Bosporus, Istanbul. Hagia Sophia, an important Byzantine structure in Istanbul and one of the world's great monuments. The Hagia Sophia (Ayasofya in Turkish) was originally built as a basilica for the Greek Orthodox Christian Church. However, its function has changed several times in the centuries since..
Turkish journalist “AEK stadium ‘Hagia Sophia’ will also be turned into a Mosque” AEK fans
The Hagia Sophia that stands today was built in the sixth century as the cathedral for the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire (also called the Byzantine Empire), and it became a mosque in 1453. The Agia Sophia Stadium: A Significant Cultural and Sporting Icon of Historical Heritage by arlind November 12, 2023 in Football Stadiums 0 VIEWS The home stadium of AEK Athens FC is situated in Nea Filadelfeia, a northwestern suburb of Athens, Greece.
Agia Sophia Advertisement Agia Sophia - design description New stadium for AEK is to loosely refer to ancient architecture. Simple measures used in the design were created by Thanasis Kyratsous, who is responsible for the majestic main entrance or four massive towers in all corners. As for the footballing future of Athens Olympic Stadium its days of regular usage could soon be a thing of the past with AEK FC planning to construct the 32,000 capacity Hagia Sophia Stadium. Expected to cost €65 million euros, whether or not the club could raise the finance in times of economic uncertainty across Greece remains to be seen.
ATHENS Agía Sofía / OPAP Arena (31,800) Page 42 SkyscraperCity Forum
360 Degree Virtual Tours of the Hagia Sophia. Last year, when Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that Hagia Sophia would be reconverted into a mosque, he assured a concerned UNESCO that changes to the 1,500-year-old former cathedral-turned-mosque would have "no negative impact" on its status as World Her. AEK's new Hagia Sophia stadium, like all other soccer arenas, will be out of bounds for fans for the next two months. Credit: AEK FC. Greece announced on Monday it asked the Super League to hold soccer matches without spectators for two months after incidents of hooligan violence.. This measure, announced by government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis after a meeting at Maximos Mansion on Sunday.
