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	Hagia Sophia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hagia Sophia (Church of Holy Wisdom), now known as the Ayasofya Museum, is a former Eastern Orthodox church converted to a mosque in 1453, converted into a museum in 1935, in the Turkish city of Istanbul.
		Hagia Sophia is one of the greatest surviving examples of Byzantine architecture.
		Hagia Sophia was the seat of the Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople and a principal setting for Byzantine imperial ceremonies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hagia_Sophia (1837 words)

	Hagia Sophia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Hagia Sophia is the supreme masterpiece of Byzantine architecture.
		Hagia Sophia stands on the site of an earlier basilican church erected by Constantius II in 360, some 30 years after Byzantium had become the capital of the Roman Empire.
		With the Turkish conquest of Constantinople in 1453, Hagia Sophia became a mosque, and in subsequent years all the interior figure mosaics were obscured under coatings of plaster and painted ornament; most of the Christian symbols elsewhere were obliterated.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ha/HagiaSop.html (577 words)

	HAGIA SOPHIA
		The historian Socrates indicated that the church was named Sophia during the reign of Emperor Constantine and was to symbolize the second aspect of the trinity, Christ.
		Unfortunately the Hagia Sophia was later ransacked in 1204 by the Fourth Crusaders and after repairs it continued as a church until the Turks conquered Constantinople in 1453.
		When Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror entered the city and rode to the Hagia Sophia he claimed her for his own and so she was then converted into his imperial mosque.
	www.bts.edu /trobisch/turkey2001/Presentations/hagia_sophia.htm (868 words)

	Hagia Sophia Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hagia Sophia is not a public building that changed ownership with the conquest of a war.
		Hagia Sophia is a place of God, Christendom’s grandest place of worship for over 900 years, and arguably the most perfect and beautiful church that has been erected by any Christian people.
		Hagia Sophia, an essential element of Christianity, a second Jerusalem, the most revolutionary and daring church conceived in Christendom, has been turned into a museum considerably impaired by the loss of all its Christian furnishings and much of its original setting and atmosphere.
	www.hagiasophiablog.com /mainpage.html (424 words)

	Guides of Istanbul - Hagia Sophia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hagia Sophia lithograph from the album by the Fossati brothers, Aya Sofia Constantinople, London 1852, (Athens Gennadeios Library).
		The oldest surviving mosaic in Hagia Sophia is that of the Virgin enthroned, “the living throne of Christ Pantocrator,” with the Christ Child in her lap.
		During the Palaeologian age, Emperor Michael VIII (1261-1282) had Hagia Sophia repaired by the architect Ruchas, and the buttressesin the south-west were added at that time.
	www.guidesofistanbul.com /eng/hagia_sophia.htm (2222 words)

	Hagia Sophia
		Hagia Sophia uses vaulting techniques of Romans similar to what you see close up of geometric forms and design and geometry of the Late Greek world.
		Hagia Sophia has a vertical axis, which extends from the floor to the ceiling mosaic.
		Another remarkable attribute of Hagia Sophia is the delicate proportioning of the vaults.
	www.dl.ket.org /humanities/connections/class/religions/hagia.htm (845 words)

	Hotels in Turkey \| Hotels in Istanbul \| Blue Voyage Yachting and Cabin Charters \| St. Sophia
		Socrates (380-440), the chronicler of the church history of the period, states that the first building of Hagia Sophia (or sometimes referred to as Saint Sophia) was erected by Constantine the Great.
		Hagia Sophia, which is one of the outstanding monuments in the history of art in our planet, had been called a "Megalo Ecclesia" (meaning a colossal church) at its first construction.
		These are apparently the remains of the entrance front of the second Hagia Sophia, built by Emperor Theodosius 11, in the form of a basilica.
	www.exploreturkey.com /exptur.phtml?id=174 (634 words)

	Hagia Sophia - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hagia Sophia is the supreme masterpiece of Byzantine architecture.
		Hagia Sophia stands on the site of an earlier basilican church erected by Constantius II in 360, some 30 years after Byzantium had become the capital of the Roman Empire.
		With the Turkish conquest of Constantinople in 1453, Hagia Sophia became a mosque, and in subsequent years all the interior figure mosaics were obscured under coatings of plaster and painted ornament; most of the Christian symbols elsewhere were obliterated.
	www.encylopedia.com /html/H/HagiaSop.asp (689 words)

	Hagia Sophia: the Perfect Space, by Tom Brosnahan
		On a hot Istanbul afternoon, Hagia Sophia is an oasis of cool silence broken only by the spiel and patter of the multilingual guides.
		Hagia Sophia is an experience in space and time, and the architects' magic still works after more than fourteen centuries.
		Stroll into Hagia Sophia's shady garden and you feel only that you are approaching an improbable, famous, old, ungainly pile of Byzantine masonry, huge and squat, guarded by four dissimilar and incongruous minarets.
	www.turkeytravelplanner.com /Articles/HagiaSophiaPerfectSpace.html (700 words)

	Istanbul Hotels, Istanbul Hotel, Hotels in Istanbul, Istanbul Hotel
		Hagia Sophia is the most renowned Byzantine cathedral and the best known Christian church in Istanbul.
		The first church, Hagia Sophia, was built between the years 337-361 A.D. Construction was begun during the reign of Constantius, son and successor of Constantine The Great.
		Hagia Sophia served as a mosque during the early years of the Turkish Republic, then declared a national monument and converted into a museum by the order of Atatuk on 24 October 1934.
	www.celalsultan.com /hagiasophiamuseums.asp (359 words)

	Turkish Odyssey/Places of Interest/Marmara/Highlights of Ist.
		During the Byzantine period, the Hagia Sophia was the religious center, a place which belonged to God; the palace belonged to the emperor; and the hippodrome was the civil center for the people.
		The Hagia Sophia has a classical basilica plan and the main ground plan of the building is a rectangle, 70 m / 230 ft in width and 75 m / 246 ft in length.
		The central space of the Hagia Sophia is divided on both sides from the side aisles by four big piers and 107 columns (40 downstairs, 67 upstairs) between them.
	www.turkishodyssey.com /places/marmara/marmara2.htm (5997 words)

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		Hagia Sophia was first named "Megale Ekklesia" (The Great Church) as it was the largest church in Constantinople.
		A vivid reminder of that important event in the earliest history of the spread of Byzantine Orthodox Christianity to the East Slavs may be seen in Kiev, where the main cathedral was dedicated to the Holy Wisdom (Hagia Sophia) in emulation of the main cathedral in Constantinople.
		A series of mural paintings in the Kievan church celebrates Olga’s baptism and illustrates her attending events at the Imperial court, including chariot races in the Hippodrome (the Emperor is shown with a halo).
	www.lycos.com /info/constantinople--hagia-sophia.html (405 words)

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		The Hagia Sophia is the most important surviving work of byzantine architecture in Byzantium.
		The Hagia Sophia was the church of both the emperor and the patriarch where the most important religious and state ceremonies were held.
		The emperor had direct access to it from the palace by a bridge crossing the street, and the patriarch had his residence in a palace immediately on the south side of the church.
	www.byzantium1200.com /hagia.html (150 words)

	Haghia Sophia, Ayasofya, Istanbul Hagia Sophia
		Sophia, the name of a street dancer, a courtesane who became empress, has nothing to do with the name of this cathedral, which is taken from the Greek.
		Sophia meaning “wisdom" to which is added the adjective «Saint»;, to form the phrase "Divine Wisdom”.
		This was destroyed by Eire in 404 and Theodosius II had it rebuilt in 415; but in the course of revolutions which shook the throne and divided the nation into two warring factions the Greens and the Blues, the temple was razed to the ground.
	www.istanbulportal.com /istanbulportal/HaghiaSophia.aspx (1575 words)

	hagia sophia floor plans and much more (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is the Hagia Sophia or the Church of the Holy Wisdom.
		Hagia Sophia, which is considered as one of the eight wonders of the world.
		This floor plan of the church, called Hagia Sophia, is located in Istanbul, Turkey and was constructed in 535 AD Hagia Sophia, or the Church of the Holy.
	www.house-plans-4-u.com /hagia-sophia-floor-plans.html (521 words)

	Hagia Sophia (Constantinople) - OrthodoxWiki
		Hagia Sophia (Άγια Σοφία in Greek), the Church of Holy Wisdom, known variously as Sancta Sophia in Latin or Ayasofya in Turkish, is an ancient cathedral of the Church of Constantinople located in modern-day Istanbul, Turkey.
		For over 900 years the Hagia Sophia was the seat of the Patriarch of Constantinople and a principal setting for imperial ceremonies.
		It was converted to a mosque at the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks under Sultan Mehmet II in 1453.
	orthodoxwiki.org /Hagia_Sophia_(Constantinople) (722 words)

	Detailed Information About Hagia Sophia - ExploreIstanbul.com
		The name Hagia Sophia (Sacred wisdom) was adopted in the fifth century, and it was by this name that the cathedral continued to be known throughout the Byzantine era, being corrupted in the Turkish era to Ayasofya.
		It is said that the emperor, processing towards the apse, in a state of great excitement proclaimed his thanks to God or having the honpur to have constructed such a magnificent church, and shouted "Solomon, I have surpassed you".
		During the Latin invasion, the IV crusaders sacked and damaged Hagia Sophia, as if it were a pagan temple, in 1204.
	www.exploreistanbul.com /showarticle.asp?parentid=22&id=38 (2000 words)

	Hagia Sophia: 532-537
		It is the Hagia Sophia or the “Church of the Holy Wisdom”.
		The Hagia Sophia remained under the empires reign until May 29, 1453, when the Ottoman Empire stormed Constantinople.
		Mango, Materials for the Study of the Mosaics of St. Sophia at Istanbul (Washington DC, 1962) [analytical study of the dossier of available drawings, mostly 19th century, of the known decoration].
	www.thenagain.info /WebChron/EastEurope/HagiaSophia.html (678 words)

	Hagia Sophia/ Istanbul
		The Hagia Sophia has a diameter of 31-33 meters and a height of 54 meters and is covered with a large dome.
		The church was considerably damaged by the earthquake of 557 and the nephew of the Architect Izidorus supervised the repair of the structure.
		Because Byzantium was strongly under the intluence of Rome at the time of the construction of the Hagia Sophia, this structure is an amalgam of the magnificence of Roman architecture with the standard church architecture of the Byzantines.
	www.turizm.net /turkey/history/hagiasophia.html (377 words)

	Haghia Sophia
		Haghia Sophia, the "Church of Holy Wisdom", was built by the Emperor Justinian in the 6th century.
		At the entrance to the narthex is a mosaic depicting Constantine and Justinian presenting the walled city of constantinople and Haghia Sophia respectively to the Virgin Mary, who holds the infant Christ in her arms.
		Another indication of reverence in which the Turks held Haghia Sophia is the collection of royal tombs in the precinct.
	www.virtualistanbul.com /virtualistanbul/HaghiaSophia.htm (424 words)

	BUILDING BIG: Databank: Hagia Sophia
		Considered the finest example of Byzantine architecture in the world, the church of Hagia Sophia was constructed on a scale unprecedented in human history.
		Under the rule of Justinian the Emperor, and with a force of 10,000 workers, the dome atop the church of Hagia Sophia was built in record time: it took just five years, ten months, and four days to complete.
		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.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/buildingbig/wonder/structure/hagia_sophia.html (312 words)

	Hagia Sophia - Mother of Churches
		Hagia Sophia or Holy Wisdom is the mother church of all Eastern Christians of the Byzantine liturgical tradition both Orthodox and Greek Catholic.
		The dome of Hagia Sophia was supported by four piers (the solid supports from which the arches spring), each measuring about 118 square yards at the base.
		In its heyday as the Imperial church, Hagia Sophia was served by 80 priests, 150 deacons, 60 subdeacons, 160 readers, 25 cantors and 75 doorkeepers.
	www.byzantines.net /epiphany/hagiasophia.htm (1441 words)

	Istanbul - Hagia Sophia Mosque
		Hagia Sophia Mosque - Aya Sofya - The Red Mosque.
		All the mosaics required restoration as they were covered in plaster when Hagia Sophia was converted to a Mosque.
		Hagia Sophia Mosque - Aya Sofya - The Red Mosque and Sultan Ahmet Mosque - The Blue Mosque.
	www.jellesen.dk /webcrea/places/istanbul/aya.html (184 words)

	Aya Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey.
		Hagia Sofia, Aya Sophia, Aya Sofia, Sancta Sophia, Holy Wisdom...
		The large green shield is an artifact from the nearly 500 years that the Aya Sophia was used as a mosque.
		Narthex- A portico or lobby of an early Christian or Byzantine church or basilica, originally separated from the nave by a railing or screen.
	www.quovadimus.org /turkey99/ayasophia/thumb.html (362 words)

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