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To: Olog-hai

Just don’t burn down the Hagia Sophia. Take it whole and convert it back to a Christian Church.


14 posted on 11/15/2015 3:19:41 PM PST by CMB_polarization
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To: CMB_polarization
Just don’t burn down the Hagia Sophia. Take it whole and convert it back to a Christian Church.

I've been there. The Turks kept a TINY bit of Christianity in the Church.

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The Virgin and Child from the Apse of Hagia Sophia--all still in the original mosaics.

THE VIRGIN AND CHILD

The Virgin who occupies the center of the apse semidome is represented enthroned with the Child seated in her lap. She rests her right hand on the Child's right shoulder, and her left, which holds a handkerchief, on the Child's left knee. The figure is complete except for an area of loss (roughly o.80 m. high and 0.70 wide) on the Virgin's left side corresponding to her left forearm and elbow, the Child's left hand, and part of the upper cushion placed on the throne. There is, furthermore, a fissure, caused by a structural crack in the shell of the semidome, which runs down the middle of the figure to the apex of the central window. It is clear that the mosaic was executed at a time when the semidome had already undergone the deformations it exhibits today.

33 posted on 11/15/2015 3:31:30 PM PST by cloudmountain
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