Nipson anomēmata mē monan opsin (Greek: Νίψον ἀνομήματα, μὴ μόναν ὄψιν), meaning "Wash the sins, not only the face," or "Wash my transgressions, not only my face," is a Greek palindrome which was inscribed upon a holy water font outside the church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople:
The phrase is attributed to Saint Gregory of Nazianzus.
The inscription can also be found in the following places:
above the Hagiasma ("Holy Spring") of the Church of St. Mary of Blachernae in Istanbul;
around the baptismal font at St. Mary's Church, Nottingham;
the font of several churches in Paris, e.g.,
St. Stephen d’Egres,
Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Paris,
St. Martin des Champs,
St. Pierre de Chaillot,
Basilica of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, Paris;
at St. Menin’s Abbey, Orléans;
at Dulwich College;
at the following churches of the UK: Tewkesbury Abbey (Gloucestershire), Worlingworth (Suffolk), Harlow (Essex), Knapton (Norfolk), St Martin, Ludgate (London), and Hadleigh (Suffolk);
at the Vlatadon Monastery, Thessaloniki, Greece.
