maios
Hagia Sophia
Hagia Sophia , Αγία Σοφία , Istanbul ,Turkey
Hagia Sophia, Turkish Ayasofya, Latin Sancta Sophia, also called Church of the Holy Wisdom or Church of the Divine Wisdom, cathedral built at Constantinople (now , Istanbul Turkey ) the 6th century ce (532–537) under the direction of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I. By general consensus, it is the most important Byzantine structure and one of the world’s great monuments.
For more than a millennium it was the Cathedral of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
After the Turkish conquest of Constantinople in 1453, Mehmed II had it repurposed as a mosque.In 1934 Turkish Pres. Kemal Atatürk secularized the building, and in 1935 it was made into a museum.
Art historians consider the building’s beautiful mosaics to be the main source of knowledge about the state of mosaic art in the time shortly after the end of the Iconoclastic Controversy in the 8th and 9th centuries.The Hagia Sophia is a component of a UNESCO World Heritage site called the Historic Areas of Istanbul , which includes that city’s other major historic buildings and locations.
Hagia Sophia
Hagia Sophia , Αγία Σοφία , Istanbul ,Turkey
Hagia Sophia, Turkish Ayasofya, Latin Sancta Sophia, also called Church of the Holy Wisdom or Church of the Divine Wisdom, cathedral built at Constantinople (now , Istanbul Turkey ) the 6th century ce (532–537) under the direction of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I. By general consensus, it is the most important Byzantine structure and one of the world’s great monuments.
For more than a millennium it was the Cathedral of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
After the Turkish conquest of Constantinople in 1453, Mehmed II had it repurposed as a mosque.In 1934 Turkish Pres. Kemal Atatürk secularized the building, and in 1935 it was made into a museum.
Art historians consider the building’s beautiful mosaics to be the main source of knowledge about the state of mosaic art in the time shortly after the end of the Iconoclastic Controversy in the 8th and 9th centuries.The Hagia Sophia is a component of a UNESCO World Heritage site called the Historic Areas of Istanbul , which includes that city’s other major historic buildings and locations.