Turkey Church of St. Sophia (Scenery) Satellite maps
Before and after the construction of St. Sophia Cathedral which lasted a total of more than seven years, costly, it represents the Eastern Roman Empire, the pinnacle of architectural art.Now let us take a look at this building the world's treasures it.Front of the church is an ornate courtyard, surrounded by galleries around the central pool is.After triple doors to the outside Qianlang it, then that is the great grand Qianlang, divided into two tiers, the lower and middle classes for Protestants and the use of repentance, to the upper part of the church Youlang.Plane combinations right in the middle of a square, while 32.6 meters long, the perimeter of 183 meters, 7.6 meters wide and build a large stone arch ring.Support on four and a half laps, with care to the Dome.Large dome 15 meters high, 32.6 meters in diameter.Dome of next two and a half, the Middle Temple is oval.The initial result of the hasty construction, the dome collapsed once, when added to help repair the wall.But from later generations can understand that the structure of its achievements and Jiangshi of the force structure of the analysis capabilities have reached a very high level.In fact, the most eye-catching, or its internal structure.Church of the internal space is magnificent, both reunification and full of changes, the size of a half dome of intricate changes.When people outside the Basilica in the dark, the sun dipped through the windows Zhaodao Basilica, the eyes will be staggered in black and white patterns, to create floating in the air like a wonderful feeling in general, when a well-known historian Provenzo Mobius said: "as if from the sky as the hanging of a shackle."In the most distinctive building is the use of color.Dome with brick, the outside covered with gray Qianpi.Walls throughout the house are affixed with a colored marble, the marble from Rome, Athens, to the transportation of mandrax and other places, white, green, blue, black, red and other colours.Most of the pillars of green, the stigma is the color of gold leaf inlay, gravel paved the ground with various color patterns, vault and dome of glass sponge stone and inlaid with gold angels and the saints as.This whole hall on Cuicanduomu, magic extraordinary, so that each religion's followers to feel the mystery.And plastering the walls of mud, the black and white bands, like stone and brick mixture, so that is simple and elegant appearance.1935, the Democratic Republic of Turkey, the founder of Atari Tooker, of St. Sophia Cathedral to ayasofya museum, has long been open-Byzantine mosaic inlaid art to Chongxianguangming.Church of the Dome of the Rongji hung above the disk in Arabic read "Mohammed" and other words, the higher is inlaid mosaic of the Virgin holding the Son of Christian religious paintings, the two come together in harmony So that only the cathedral light.Such a tolerance of religious feelings in the world is unique.
Turkey Church of St. Sophia geographical coordinates (Google maps satellite map Landmark) finishing date: (2006/10/22 10:40:00)
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