آيا صوفيا. آيا صوفيا: متحف أم كنيسة أم مسجد؟

" The , however, is prophesied to endure On 13 May 2017, a large group of people, organized by the Anatolia Youth Association AGD , gathered in front of Hagia Sophia and prayed the morning prayer with a call for the re-conversion of the museum into a mosque
Do you think God dwells in temples made with hands? Most of the existing houses in the city and the area of the future were endowed to the corresponding As in the original plan of the Hagia Sophia, many of these mosques are also entered through a colonnaded courtyard, although the of the Hagia Sophia no longer exists

At the end of the reconstruction, the church's decorations were renovated, including the addition of four immense paintings of cherubs; a new depiction of Christ on the dome; a burial cloth of Christ shown on Fridays, and on the a new depiction of the Virgin Mary holding Jesus, between the apostles Peter and Paul.

تركيا: وفاة مؤذن مسجد آيا صوفيا بنوبة قلبية
Together with a picture by Cornelius Loos drawn in 1710, these images are early attestations of the mosiac before it was covered towards the end of the 18th century
آيا صوفيا
New cracks developed in the dome after the earthquake of October 1344, and several parts of the building collapsed on 19 May 1346
تركيا: وفاة مؤذن مسجد آيا صوفيا بنوبة قلبية
In: Proceedings of the Third Congress on Construction History
Originally this rotunda, probably employed as a treasury for liturgical objects, had a second-floor internal gallery accessed by an external spiral staircase and two levels of niches for storage The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Justinian
From this women's gallery , the and the court-ladies would watch the proceedings down below The sky lit up, illuminating the city, and "many people gathered and saw on the Church of the Wisdom, at the top of the window, a large flame of fire issuing forth

Apart from the mosaics, many figurative decorations were added during the second half of the 9th century: an image of Christ in the central dome; Eastern Orthodox saints, prophets and in the below; historical figures connected with this church, such as ; and some scenes from the in the galleries.

ايا صوفيا
Construction of church depicted in codex Manasses Chronicle 14th century On 23 February 532, only a few weeks after the destruction of the second basilica, Emperor inaugurated the construction of a third and entirely different basilica, larger and more majestic than its predecessors
آيا صوفيا: متحف أم كنيسة أم مسجد؟
The 1934 decree was ruled to be unlawful under both Ottoman and Turkish law as Hagia Sophia's , endowed by Sultan Mehmed, had designated the site a mosque; proponents of the decision argued the Hagia Sophia was the personal property of the sultan
آيا صوفيا جامع القسطنطينية الكبير وتحوليه من كنيسة إلي جامع
He is offering a purse, as a symbol of donation, he made to the church, while she is holding a scroll, symbol of the donations she made
Perhaps the earlier mosaic showed her first husband or her second husband Drawing of the colossal bronze imperial statue from atop the 15th century
Many of the non-figurative mosaics in the church come from this period During the reign of r

Barbaro's diary has been translated into English by John Melville-Jones New York:Exposition Press, 1969.

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آيا صوفيا: متحف أم كنيسة أم مسجد؟
The stone floor of Hagia Sophia dates from the 6th century
نص أول خطبة جمعة في بعد 86 عاما
The emperor with a could possibly represent emperor or his son bowing down before Christ Pantocrator, seated on a jewelled throne, giving his blessing and holding in his left hand an open book
ايا صوفيا
Excavations on the western side of the site of the first church under the propylaeum wall reveal that the first church was built atop a road about 8 metres 26 ft wide