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I went to Turkey during the Easter holidays. A romantic country, I visited Hagia Sophia, the main church of the Byzantine Empire, located in Istanbul, Turkey for almost fifteen hundred years, famous for its huge dome, a representative of Byzantine architecture, the central church of the Eastern Orthodox Church, a monument to the era of the extreme power of the Byzantine Empire. Later, the Turks came on the scene and the Eastern Roman Empire officially came to an end. In 1453 A.D., the Ottoman Turks renamed Constantinople to Kostantiniyya and changed Sofia Cathedral to Aya Sofia Mosque. The interior of the church is very beautiful, with a centralised shape, and in terms of space, giant domes were created, and no pillars were used to support the interior. The mathematical engineers invited by Constantine the Great invented the construction of arches, buttresses and small domes to support and share the weight of the dome, in order to place high, rounded domes on the walls between the windows and to look up to the beauty and sanctity of the heavenly realm.



 

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