Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.
[230] [231] The main dome of the Hagia Sophia was the largest pendentive dome in the world until the completion of St Peter's Basilica, and it has a much lower height than any other dome of such a large diameter. The great dome at the Hagia Sophia is 32.6 meters (one hundred and seven feet) in diameter and is only 0.61 meters (two feet) thick.
Original image: Photochrom print (color photo lithograph) Reproduction number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-03035 from Library of Congress , Prints and Photographs Division , Photochrom Prints Collection This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
The last of three church buildings to be successively erected on the site by the Eastern Roman Empire, it was completed in 537 AD. It was an Orthodox church until the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453, then a mosque until 1935, then a museum and then from 2020 a mosque again, as well as being a Roman Catholic cathedral for some decades ...
More than 100 pages use this file. The following list shows the first 100 pages that use this file only. A full list is available. Christianity; Clement of Alexandria; Depiction of Jesus; Hagia Sophia; Talk:Alexandria; Talk:Alexandrian text-type; Talk:Alexios I Komnenos; Talk:Anatolia; Talk:Andronikos I Komnenos; Talk:Anthemius; Talk:Antioch ...
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
The Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus (Little Hagia Sophia), which was the first church built by Justinian in Constantinople and constructed between 527 and 536, had earlier signaled such an improvement in the design of domed buildings, which require complex solutions for carrying the structure.