Section of Hagia Sophia

“Section of the Church of Sta. Sophia at Constantinople. The Byzantine style of this first period reached its highest example and splendor in the church of Sta. Sophia at Constantinople. After this church, which was originally built by Constantine, had been burnt to the ground, it was rebuilt, with the utmost care, and at great expense, by Justinian. On each of he open sides of the dome-covered square there abuts a semicircle with semi-domes of somewhat inferior height to the main dome.”

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domes, mosque, museum, Hagia Sophia, Byzantine architecture, constantinople, patriarchal basilica, church of saint sophia, dome structure

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Byzantine Architecture, Turkey, Domes

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