Ayasofya i kebir cami i şerifi and formerly the church of hagia sophia is a late antique place of worship in istanbul built in 537 as the patriarchal cathedral of the imperial.
Hagia sophia second floor jesus.
The lower course was part of the original decoration of hagia sophia and the second upper one was added to frame the mosaic panel.
Hagia sophia facts history and architecture.
Hagia sophia mosaics were commissioned by different byzantine emperors during the 9 th and 13 th centuries ottomans additions date back to 15 th and 19 th centuries.
Because the history of hagia sophia is not a single period.
Hagia sophia ˈ h ɑː ɡ i ə s oʊ ˈ f iː ə.
Today s hagia sophia has been serving as a museum for 85 years thanks to this fact it is possible to see traces of both christianity and islam at the same time.
Riba london and university of london.
At some point after the mosaic was created in the byzantine period this row of unmatched marble panels was put up to hide damage along the bottom of the mosaic.
The original church on the site of the hagia sophia is said to have been ordered to be built by constantine i in 325 on the foundations of a pagan temple.
His son constantius ii consecrated it in 360.
Ayasofya is a museum formerly greek orthodox church which was converted into a mosque in 1584 and located in trabzon in the north eastern part of turkey it dates back to the thirteenth century when trabzon was the capital of the empire of trebizond it is located near the seashore and two miles west of the medieval.
Hagia sophia floor plan floor plan of the hagia sophia istanbul.
Hagia sophia which is still standing today is the third church built in the same.