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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=527222" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Transition In Building Worship Utilization</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Aya Sophýa Istanbul <br>church built to honour our God<br>became prime model <br>for all mosques to honour Allah </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hagia Sophia Greek<br>Holy Wisdom<br>Sancta Sophia Latin<br>Sancta Sapientia Turkish</div><div style="margin:10px 0">designed by the Greek <br>scientist Isidore of Miletus<br>who taught physics <br>in Alexandria Egypt<br>then Constantinople Bosporus</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and Anthemius of Tralles <br>a Greek professor of Geometry <br>in Constantinople Byzantium<br>string construction of ellipse <br>conic sections elaborate vaulting </div><div style="margin:10px 0">of Hagia Sophia incorporate theories <br>of famed Heron of Alexandria? <br>utilized to address challenges <br>presented by problematic building <br>an expansive dome over large spaces</div><div style="margin:10px 0">designed by a physicist <br>and a mathematician <br>completed in 537AD rebuilt <br>by 563 after an earthquake</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Aya Sofya an Orthodox <br>patriarchal basilica<br>from date of its dedication <br>in 360 until 1453</div><div style="margin:10px 0">serving as cathedral <br>of Constantinople except <br>between 1204 and 1261<br>when it was converted </div><div style="margin:10px 0">to a Roman Catholic cathedral <br>under powerful Latin Patriarch <br>of Constantinople as the Western <br>Crusader established Latin Empire</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Aya Sofya a mosque <br>from 1453 until 1931<br>then secularized opened <br>as city museum in 1935<br>now a museum in Istanbul</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Aya Sofya 1093 years<br>principal cathedral<br>of Constantinople<br>almost 500 years </div><div style="margin:10px 0">principal mosque <br>of Turkish Istanbul<br>Hagia Sophia served <br>as a model for many </div><div style="margin:10px 0">other Ottoman mosques<br>the Kılıç Ali Paşa Mosque<br>the Rüstem Pasha Mosque<br>the Şehzade Mosque<br>the Süleymaniye Mosque </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the Sultan Ahmed Mosque <br>famous Blue Mosque of Istanbul <br>your vaulted dome planned<br>to surpass expansive spaces<br>mirror symbolic ascent into heaven</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Aya Sofya famous massive dome<br>considered an amazing epitome <br>of surviving Byzantine architecture<br>changed concept history of architecture</div><div style="margin:10px 0">largest cathedral in entire world <br>for over a thousand imposing years<br>until Catholic Seville Cathedral <br>Europe finally completed in 1506</div><div style="margin:10px 0">1402-1506 a century in building</div><div style="margin:10px 0">history abounds in massive building faith<br>building faith erected to honour God<br>transition in building worship utilization</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terence+George+Craddock">Terence George Craddock</a><div class=q>
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church built to honour our God
became prime model 
for all mosques to honour Allah 

Hagia Sophia Greek
Holy Wisdom
Sancta Sophia Latin
Sancta Sapientia Turkish

designed by the Greek 
scientist Isidore of Miletus
who taught ..."></div>
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