Museum and the Hagia Sophia masterpieces of Byzantine architecture and decoration of the Ottoman

Roman Byzantine architecture in Arabic Islamic template

Hagia Sophia 'has become a model for inclusive Ottoman decoration, which today bears witness to the museum masterpieces epochs which rolled on this construction

Istanbul known ancient name of Constantinople, stands at the heart of all Hmokh huge cathedral was built in honor of the greatness of Rome, a large building survived the uncertain caused by earthquakes and landslides war, which is also more churches greatness in the history of the Byzantine Empire, it was "Hagia Sophia"

The Ottomans conquered Constantinople in 1453, Vaatnq people of Islam and called it Istanbul name, located in the middle of two mosques are great on the edge of the beach, the oldest mosque of them is the Hagia Sophia, which means in Greek saint "Sofia", initially was not this building a mosque but was the greatest church in the era of the Byzantine Empire

Emperor Justinian I have sought to leave the historic mark Makhlda his reign, and the whole Roman emperors oriented architecture to immortalize his memory facilities, ordered the construction of this church in 532 AD, and he wanted to be with a distinctive character and be more sophisticated and beautiful architectural style fashionable churches, the desire to the new innovation, so it took built about five years, because it is built on the ruins of the old cathedral was burned when the people's revolution on Jastinean because of high taxes

The construction of the greatest church in the Empire's decision to hit two birds with one stone where he managed the Emperor of people filled the new construction to avoid revolution again, as it provided him with the symbol that honors its history and restore the confidence of the people wisely.

The main outline of the design based on Alparwa- two men saw them Bmharthma in science Almikaneka- simple so it has a large intermediate region an area of 31 square meters bordered by four huge pillars form the bond to build a whole, surrounded by the side corridors series and above the huge dome

And scans the building can discover the secrets of the Romanian engineering based on experimentation, Feltaliq circular space enormity of the Dome of the Hagia Sophia should be building materials severe lightness, as they crown symbol beauty and a height of 56 meters and a diameter of more than 31 meters, while the nave is three times greater than any Cathedral of the Covenant, but in the floor of known earthquakes, so I installed the dome on four arches in the middle of the cathedral display each thirty meters and a half, so contact the dome summit of the four brackets with additional attribution through a corner triangles bearing the pressure of the weight of the dome to arches columns, which Technology devised designed the building

Ambitious Justinian build the largest dome in the Byzantine Empire, it was an expression of it on excellence and superiority through the achievements outweigh the legacy of previous emperors, and asked to use the best building materials to set up, it was said, "Hagia Sophia" collection of basic guidelines Art Byzantine architecture as well as the traditions of Romanian architecture In addition to the Eastern and Oriental Art imprint, it is the expression on the mating Balasalama Byzantine architecture, which makes it a rare masterpiece

Hagia Sophia church named after the Saint Sophia in Greek

We also find in each side of the plate two super-sized two components of the building of the best types of marble, which is called "porphyry", is that after only about ten years of the establishment of the building cracked the eastern part of which as a result of an earthquake, and fell a large part of the massive dome, ordered Justinian rebuilt once again become so much higher than the previous, a dome that still exists even now

And continued the church as a center of the Christian faith for a long time until the entry of the Islamic religion in 1453, when the Ottoman Islamic Army succeeded led by Fatih Sultan Mehmet in the storming of the walls of the city of Constantinople, which included the western sector of the Bosphorus to the fold of the Ottoman Empire, and it was no Muslims in the mosque of the city to reach it, he ordered Sultan converts "Hagia Sophia" to the mosque, and is also covered in mosaic graphics inside did not order to remove them, in order to preserve the feelings of Christians, and the graphics still exist inside today

This church turned mosque, where they were building minarets in the external corners, and put Hilal top dome, and the Ottomans view of this mosque throughout history as a symbol of Islamic opening of Constantinople, so had the whole attention and care of the sultans and Pashas, princes and men of the Ottoman Empire, and was a favorite place for prayer and private prayer collective

Although Istanbul is full of tens of historic mosques huge like Suleymaniye Mosque, and light, and the light of Ottoman, and Sultan Ayoub, and Sultanahmet, and Mehrmah Sultan, and the New Mosque, Shah Zadeh- the mosque "Hagia Sophia" an important place in the hearts of the Muslim Turks; and it is linked to the Islamic conquest

Turkish media has picked up in June, 2005 news item stating that the circuit 10 Administrative Court in Ankara refused to allow the return of prayer Mosque "Hagia Sophia" according to the suit filed by the preservation of historical monuments and Turkish Environment Association, and the Court endorsed the continuation of government's decision to Ataturk of 1934, converting the whole of the Museum tourist and prevent pray in it