Interior Blue Mosque Hagia Sophia

The low hanging lights in the main hall add a glowing brilliance to the room while the enormous dome is one of the best examples of byzantine architecture.

Interior blue mosque hagia sophia. Built by the most succesful emperor of byzantine empire justinian in 530s hagia sophia museum is the most visited sight in istanbul. Sancta sophia or sancta sapientia. Today hagia sophia is a museum. Hagia sophia ˈ h ɑː ɡ i ə s oʊ ˈ f iː ə.

From the greek αγία σοφία pronounced aˈʝia soˈfia holy wisdom. Photos of hagia sophia. Ayasofya is the former greek orthodox christian patriarchal cathedral later an ottoman imperial mosque and now a museum ayasofya müzesi in istanbul turkey it is famous for its large dome. It incorporates some byzantine elements of the neighboring hagia sophia with traditional islamic architecture and is considered to be the last great mosque of the classical period of ottoman empire.

Hand painted blue tiles adorn the mosque s interior walls and at night the mosque is bathed in blue as lights frame the mosque s five main domes six minarets and eight secondary domes. Hagia sophia simply means church of the holy wisdom the building is certainly one of the most impressive buildings ever constructed in the world. Like all our mosques the doors to hagia. The hagia sophia might be famous for being one of the iconic mosques in istanbul but what many don t realise is that is started off life as a church and is much much older than the blue mosque that sits just across the park.

From the inside and the outside it looks like a mosque and it s hard to imagine the cathedral form. The design of the sultan ahmed mosque is the culmination of two centuries of both ottoman mosque and byzantine church developments. The sultanahmet mosque sultanahmet camii was built between 1609 and 1617 and is also known as the blue mosque because of the blue tiles used to decorate the walls of its interior. It sits next to the hagia sophia another popular tourist site.

The idea was to build a monument that would not only rival with the magnificent hagia sophia but also surpass it. The mosque embodies the epitome of byzantine influenced ottoman construction. Erdogan has sought to temper the outcry of criticism by saying. 16 hagia sophia left spikes the skyline of istanbul along with the blue mosque right.