The Multicultural Hagia Sophia

27. December 537 new Hagia Sophia was consecrated Patriarch Menas. It replaces an earlier cathedral was built in Constantine II (337-61) and was consecrated in 360 starts, or the front lobby, Constantius II, the Church is a wooden ship covered basilica, flanked by two or maybe four lane, where each floor of a tunnel, probably very similar to that of the Constantinian basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Then identify the source of the marble column in the Byzantine cathedral of the fourth century.

Baptistery was known as a “stand Olympas” and next to the church is possible, and at least two layers of the south side of the castle of the bishop, where John Chrysostom says that “came to church to pray for the Cathedral was the first known large – . name Hagia Sophia, see Christ, the Wisdom (Sophia) of God, was not tested until Costanzo cathedral burned about 430 404 was not reported significant damage, but because the building was operating in 406, the correction should be limited . the work is done by Theodosius II (408-50), and the church was rebuilt in 415 What is the initial planning of the fourth century change the currently undocumented. Stuck in churches, fourth and fifth centuries earlier in the day can be seen in front of the church, now and in the garden. It consists of six steps to the porch Stylo monumental flight performance, and about 4 m (13 ft) to the east, the beginning of the strip against the wall.

Architecture of a porch a few blocks excavated by Alfons Maria Schneider in 1935 showed that the proposed entrance porch, central hall and a monumental sculpture arched colonnade threshold. Since Schneider, this statue blocking the decorative style found that they had dug time Theodosius II.

the eastern part of the wall under the porch at the beginning of this most likely is the eastern wall of the atrium of the church. It is built of alternate bands of brick and stone rubble as a small program, a square of very rough stone (currently limited by several courses of modern rock). pre-Justinian’s church is less than the router of the sixth century seems to have imported an angle a few degrees further south, and includes elements of design as a standard feature of the Church of Constantinople, the early Byzantine period: atrium, narthex, the Basilica of Beech Gallery

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