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  • pagan temple.Emerson Howland Swift, Hagia Sophia (Columbia University Press ... poem by Paul the Silentiary, describing Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. It ...
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  • With her husband, she built the famous Hagia Sophia basilica and transformed ... constructed 25 churches, including the Hagia Sophia. They also built bridges ...
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  • example, it was used for the columns of Hagia Sophia (in Constantinople, now ... exedrae (semicircular niches) in Hagia Sophia. Justinian's chronicler ...
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  • the Eastern-Orthodox basilica are the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, originally ... great Church of the Divine Wisdom—the Hagia Sophia—raised in the phenomenally ...
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  • detail of the Deesis mosaic in Hagia Sophia – Constantinople (Istanbul) twelfth century]] The Eastern Orthodox Church is a Christian body whose ...
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  • of the city's central church, Hagia Sophia, into a mosque, and having ... Wisdom, Sancta Sophia (also known as Hagia Sophia in Greek), as the centerpiece ...
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  • Zeuxippus still standing close to the Hagia Sophia. This would become one ... a dome even larger than that of the Hagia Sophia. Here, he finally realized ...
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  • [[Image:Hagia-Sophia-Laengsschnitt.jpg|left|thumb|200px|The "Church ... the new capital of the Ottoman Empire. Hagia Sophia was converted into a mosque ...
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  • normal, but by a certain Joseph, a priest of Hagia Sophia. ... refused to attend the Christmas mass in Hagia Sophia, at which the emperor ...
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  • monasteries, orphanages, hostels, the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, as ... Justinian also rebuilt the Church of Hagia Sophia, the original site having ...
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  • three legates entered the Church of the Hagia Sophia during the Divine Liturgy ... Constantinople itself and defiled the Hagia Sophia. The ensuing period of ...
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  • built deliberately to rival the splendor of Hagia Sophia. ... Muhammad is God's messenger, in Hagia Sophia—which thereafter functioned ...
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  • describing a majestic Divine Liturgy in Hagia Sophia, "nor such beauty, and we know not how to tell of it." If Vladimir was impressed ...
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  • immense power and spirituality of Islam, like Hagia Sophia in Constantinople during the sixth to fifteenth centuries did for Eastern Orthodox Christianity. ...
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  • buildings, and some of the columns in Hagia Sophia originally belonged to ... [http://www.exploreturkey.com/exptur.phtml?id=176 St. Sophia Construction ...
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  • Church) services in the great church of Hagia Sophia. It is said that he hid ... Pontica. Since both the Church of St. Sophia and the palace of the patriarch ...
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  • reported, describing a majestic liturgy in Hagia Sophia. The splendor of the church itself was such that "we know not how to tell of it." ...
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  • Málaga in Moorish Spain to the mosaics of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. A special kind of Islamic tiles, Azulejo, are small glazed tiles ...
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  • *Hagia Sophia *Leaning Tower of Pisa Other sites that have been mentioned include: *Cairo Citadel *Ely Cathedral *Taj Mahal *Cluny Abbey ...
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  • were well known (not least in the choir of Hagia Sophia), and remained so until the sack of Constantinople by the Western forces of the Fourth Crusade ...
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