Editing Hagia Sophia (section)

==== Occupation of Istanbul (1918–1923) ====
[[File:Averof painting 1919 Bosporus.jpg|thumb|[[Royal Hellenic Navy|RHS]] ''[[Greek cruiser Georgios Averof|Georgios Averof]]'' enters the [[Golden Horn]] in 1919, during the Allied [[occupation of Constantinople]], with Hagia Sophia visible in the background ({{Interlanguage link|Λυκούργος Κογεβίνας|lt=Lycourgos Kogevinas|el||WD=}}, [[National Historical Museum, Athens]])]]
In the aftermath of the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War&nbsp;I, Constantinople was [[Occupation of Istanbul|occupied]] by British, French, Italian, and Greek forces. On {{date|1919/01/19}}, the Greek Orthodox Christian military priest [[Eleftherios Noufrakis]] performed an unauthorized [[Divine Liturgy]] in the Hagia Sophia, the only such instance since the 1453 fall of Constantinople.<ref name="Stivaktakis 2004">{{cite web |last=Stivaktakis |first=Anthony E. |title=The Last Divine Liturgy in Hagia Sophia of 1919 |website=www.johnsanidopoulos.com |date=2004-02-27 |url=https://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2015/06/the-last-divine-liturgy-in-hagia-sophia.html |access-date=2022-08-08}}</ref> The anti-occupation [[Sultanahmet demonstrations]] were held next to Hagia Sophia from March to May 1919. In Greece, the 500 [[Modern drachma|drachma]] banknotes issued in 1923 featured Hagia Sophia.<ref>{{Cite web |title=500 Drachmai |url=https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note262487.html |access-date=22 February 2023 |website=Numista}}</ref>