Hagia Sofia

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Hagia Sofia - a 6th century masterpiece of Byzantine architecture in Istanbul; built as a Christian church, converted to a mosque in 1453, and made into a museum in the middle of the 20th century

Hagia Sophia, Santa Sofia, Santa Sophia

Constantinople, Istanbul, Stamboul, Stambul - the largest city and former capital of Turkey; rebuilt on the site of ancient Byzantium by Constantine I in the fourth century; renamed Constantinople by Constantine who made it the capital of the Byzantine Empire; now the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church

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Against postcard settings of Pompeii, the Acropolis, the Hagia Sofia, and the pyramids at Giza--pristinely shot to look like dioramas--she discourses on myths, legends, and wisdom, on natural catastrophes and the struggles that have borne and destroyed nations.

That sinking feeling: James Quandt on Manoel de Oliveira's A Talking ... by Quandt, James / Artforum International

William used craftsmen from Constantinopole to create the interior, in which the gold mosaics still create the sensation of being transported to a luminous heaven, experienced by barbarian visitors to Hagia Sofia which was built six hundred years before and has lost most of its decoration.

View from Palermo, Sicily: Palermo is like nowhere else, next to ... by The Architectural Review

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