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Saint Sophia

Item No: 150:9757199451
Category: 16

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Author: Fatih Cimok
ISBN: 9757199451
Publisher: A Turizm Yayinlan Ltd., 2000
Size: 210 x 270 mm (8 x 10.5 in.); 140 pages. Hardcover.

With 80 colour pictures, the subject matter of the bolume is the former Church of Saint Sophia, today's Ayasofya Museum built by Justinian the Great in 532-37. It covers the early history of Byzantium and Constantinople, the first and second churches of St Sophia which were built on the same spot, the Nika (Victory) Riots and construction of present-day building and its history first as a mosque and later as a museum. The last part of the volume deals with its surviviing mosaics and includes pictures of all of them. The text is supplemented with plans and drawings of the Fossatis who restored the monument in the nineteenth century.

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