Turkey: St. Sophia Church and mosque of the perfect combination of

Are you thereTurkeyThere are three must go where the old city of Istanbul: Blue Mosque, old palace (Topkapi Palace), Hagia Sophia Church. Position in the middle, looks ugly in one's appearance and even a bit shabby building is easy to be in the vicinity of the magnificent Blue Mosque PK down, a lot of tourists time compact between her and the Blue Mosque most of them would choose the latter passed her visit, leaving only a glimpse of people do not know what they miss is a magic building, those were her appearance misled people never think it looks is a mosque, but actually is a church! I personally love beyond even now the symbol of Blue Mosque in Istanbul for her, is a place I like most of the big three.

Hagia Sophia Church

The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter was built before the Vatican, Hagia Sophia Church was the biggest church in the world. Are you thereRome916 years of imperial rule, Hagia Sophia is the main church, all the kings are crowned here, she is known as "the highest masterpiece of Byzantine architecture". In 1453 Osman Empire conquered Istanbul, Sultan Mohammed S turned into a mosque, and built 4 tall minarets around as a mosque in existence for 481 years, in her into the mosque, the original church wall paint fine mosaics were hushed up until 1931, aThe United States of AmericaThe expedition was found in the walls of the mosaic, that she was the church's true identity to the world.

The inner dome

The 1935 Turkey father of the fatherland to Atatrk St. Sophia museum. Hagia Sophia after 900 years of vicissitudes, witnessed the rise and fall of Istanbul, although after the construction of the Blue Mosque thunder overshadowed the Hagia Sophia, but doesn't cover it.

Great architecture is needed to look up

I was convinced that the great architecture is needed to look up, more verbal description is pale, the more the record of the image are powerless, these are not enough to express brought her strong atmospheric places mental shock. The body that towering big dome in Hagia Sophia Church, looked up at the hanging around with Arabia inscription writing large disk, the great dome with high and steep delicate mosaic tiles and Madonna, can feel the power of religion two shares in the collision, but the heart is a words can not be calm, harmonious coexistence hundreds of years two kinds of religious totem, let the Hagia Sophia became a legend of the one and only faith.

Large dome 31 meters in diameter of the column is a hollow brick production by the Rhodes island built

Hagia Sophia Church is a three arch rectangular building, the dome of the church is 60 meters high, equivalent to 20 floors high, is one of the five world famous dome. Large dome 31 meters in diameter of the column is a hollow brick production by the Rhodes island built around the hall, with arched windows with stained glass, but because the hall is magnificent, natural lighting brightness and the hall area proportion, so it is hall is very dark, not help people have a fear of feeling.