Aya Sofia
Although I am not going to walk on the temples and museums in Istanbul, hoping to shoot seals, Lenka still dragged me to the Hagia Sophia.
Church of Holy Wisdom - a former Eastern Orthodox church converted into a mosque, nowadays known as the eighth wonder of the museum and light (which is on the account?) ...
2. Until 10 minutes standing in line for tickets and entrance were attacked by dozens of proposals "jump the queue", "take a guide", "cheaper and pass the queue", "go to the other side." Well, I understand, if you stand an hour and a half, as Notre Dame, and then a few short minutes and 25 lire. Meaning?
3. Inside the temple seems huge, but at a distance, he too big already - compared to the Blue Mosque on the left.
4. Gender, columns and part of the walls of the cathedral made of polychrome marble and in the guide are advised to pay special attention to the floor - from centuries-old guards trampling on it a distinct deepening - a live performance of the flow of time.
5. Byzantine religious center was built five years - from 532 to 537, and about a thousand years, the cathedral remained the largest church in Christendom (before the construction of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.)
6. In 1453 the city was captured by the Ottomans and the church was turned into a mosque, and he built four minarets. In 1935, after the order of Ataturk Hagia Sophia became a national museum.
7. In the main hall are nine gates through central could enter only the emperor.
8. Within half of the area is fenced forests.
9. Dome cut by dozens of windows that give light and the feeling of a thick openwork walls, retaining it. But keep it not only walls, but also a system of numerous smaller domes, arches and buttresses.
10. The paint is painted most of the Christian mosaics.
11. At the same time, frescoes and mosaics in places well preserved precisely because at the time they slipped.
And they say that the lower part of the puzzle down as souvenirs visitors.
12. The upper gallery of the large fragment preserved Byzantine mosaics "Deisus." The plot depicts the Last Judgment in the abstract, where Christ will judge mankind for their sins.
13. The right of him portrayed Virgin and John the Baptist on the left.
14. The original looked like this:
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16. To get to "Deesis" you have to walk through the marble "Gates of Heaven and Hell." Once they were white, but the people do not wash their hands before visiting the museum.
17. Sails in a dome - large disks covered with leather and gold bearing the names of Allah, the Prophet Muhammad and the four caliphs.
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19. Chandeliers hanging almost to the floor, leaving a little space above the heads of visitors.
20. Around four main dome visible mosaic seraphim figurines, two of which are relieved of plaster 5 years ago. Images of people in Islam are not allowed. But due to the fact that it is no longer a mosque, a museum, perhaps in time "open" and steel.
21. At the center of the church under the dome on the floor just to the right colored stone slabs stacked in the square - a place of the imperial throne or omphalos. Following are considered by the number of the apostles, but there is clearly more.
22. Visitors of souvenir wreaths some famous Turkish princess.
23. Colonna St. George constantly condense moisture, and rumor has it that if you scroll in her finger hole 360 degrees fulfilled desire.
24. The upper gallery instead of stairs leads ramp, and in rare grazing windows seals.
25. Verses from the Koran?
26. The view of the Blue Mosque.
27. One of the locals was popular more than the museum itself.
28. But stand up for themselves and liberties may striped style "mimimi" does not.
29. His kxtxyshestvo.
30. On the dome of the cathedral once stood a cross.
31. Couple of appearances. Evening dupe.
32. And the morning.
That's the beauty.
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