Hagia Sophia - Istanbul Turkey Framed Print

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Hagia Sophia - Istanbul Turkey by Debra Martz

The Hagia Sophia is situated on a hill overlooking the Sea of Marmara and the Bosporus and greets incoming cruise ships to Istanbul with its minarets and magnificent dome. From 532 through 537 Justinian the Emperor and a work force of 10,000 erected the greatest Church in the ancient Christian world. It was the dome that made Hagia Sophia the most complex building of antiquity. The shallow dome was made from 40 equally spaced ribs. Forty windows were then set at the dome's base, creating the sensation that the dome actually floated over the church.
In 559 A.D., an earthquake tumbled the dome. It was rebuilt to a smaller scale, and the whole church was reinforced from the outside. After the Turkish conquest of Constantinople (1453), Hagia Sophia became a mosque, and the ornate interior mosaics were obscured by layers of plaster and painted ornament. Today , since 1935, all plaster removed, Hagia Sophia is a museum of Byzantine...

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