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  2. Byzantine architecture - Wikipedia

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    Byzantine architecture is the architecture of the ... to Byzantine art, the plan of the Umayyad Mosque has also a remarkable similarity with 6th- and 7th-century ...

  3. Zeyrek Mosque - Wikipedia

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    Near the mosque is the Şeyh Süleyman Mescidi, a small Byzantine building that probably belonged to the Pantokrator Monastery. It may have housed a library although that is not certain. In its entirely, this monastic complex is the best example of Middle Byzantine architecture to survive in Istanbul [2]

  4. List of Byzantine monuments in Istanbul - Wikipedia

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    List of Byzantine monuments in Istanbul (historic Constantinople).This list is not complete. (By alphabetical order) A Atik Mustafa Pasha Mosque; B Basilica Cistern; Boukoleon Palace

  5. Hagia Sophia, Trabzon - Wikipedia

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    A view of the Hagia Sophia of Trabzon (today a mosque) with its bell tower and the Black Sea coast in the background Bell tower The Hagia Sophia church is an important example of late Byzantine architecture , being characterised by a high central dome and four large column arches supporting the weight of the dome and ceiling.

  6. Early Ottoman architecture - Wikipedia

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    Compared to earlier mosques, this results in a much more sophisticated "cascade of domes" effect for the building's exterior profile, likely reflecting influences from the Hagia Sophia and the original (now disappeared) Fatih Mosque. [145] The courtyard is also considered one of the finest courtyards in Ottoman mosque architecture. [146]

  7. Pammakaristos Church - Wikipedia

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    Converted in 1591 into the Fethiye Mosque (Turkish: Fethiye Camii, "mosque of the conquest"), it is today partly a museum housed in a side chapel or parekklesion. One of the most important examples of Constantinople's Palaiologan architecture, the mosque contains the largest quantity of Byzantine mosaics in Istanbul after the Hagia Sophia and ...

  8. Turkey formally opens another former Byzantine-era ... - AOL

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    Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan formally opened a former Byzantine church in Istanbul as a mosque on Monday, four years after his government had designated it a Muslim house of prayer ...

  9. Umayyad architecture - Wikipedia

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    Umayyad architecture developed in the Umayyad Caliphate between 661 and 750, primarily in its heartlands of Syria and Palestine.It drew extensively on the architecture of older Middle Eastern and Mediterranean civilizations including the Sassanian Empire and especially the Byzantine Empire, but introduced innovations in decoration and form.