Hagia Sophia

Hagia Sophia 

For almost a millennium..

Hagia Sophia was the largest enclosed space in the world. Designed to impress the strength and wealth of the byzantine emperors upon their own subjects and visiting foreign dignitaries alike.
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 Superbly located between the topkapi palace and blue mosque on the ancient acropolis, the first hill of Istanbul, the church dominated the city skyline for a thousand years, until the domes and minarets of the city's mosques began to challenge its eminence in the 16th century. 

Hagia Sophia is other wise called, the church of the Divine wisdom.

Commissioned in the 6th century by Emperor justinian after its predecessor had been razed to the ground in 532,its architects were Anthemius of Tralles and Isidore of Miletus.Anthemius and Isidore were to create a building of a type and scale hitherto unknown to the byzantine world.

 Even now any traveller who visits this mighty historical monument could hardly believe the architectural excellence of the ancient world.

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