Interior Of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
by Wellcome Images
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Interior Of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
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Wellcome Images
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Interior of Hagia Sophia from the second floor gallery allotted to Turkish women. The grand dome has extensive ornamentation and an inscription in Arabic "Allahu nurussemavati" (Luminous heaven of God) by Mustafa İzzet Efendi. Ionic columns and frescos remain from the Orthodox period with some Ottoman human figures. At the left and right a couple of covered angel figures are shown. C. 1786. Built in 537 as the patriarchal cathedral of the imperial capital of Constantinople, the Hagia Sophia was the largest Christian church of the eastern Roman Empire (the Byzantine Empire) and the Eastern Orthodox Church, except during the Latin Empire from 1204 to 1261, when it became the city's Roman Catholic cathedral. In 1453, after the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire, it was converted into a mosque. In 1935 the secular Turkish Republic established it as a museum. In 2020, it re-opened as a mosque.
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