Hagia Sophia Interior Dome
The hagia sophia combines a longitudinal basilica and a centralized building in a wholly original manner with a huge 32 metre 105 foot main dome supported on pendentives and two semidomes one on either side of the longitudinal axis.
Hagia sophia interior dome. Panorama of the vaulting and interior of the dome annotations. The dome stretching 107 feet across is an architectural marvel. Interior view of the hagia sophia showing christian and islamic elements on the top of the main dome annotations.
The dome is built by brick and mortar it is 31 24 mt 102 ft 6 in diameters and is 55 6 mt 182 ft 5 in high. The interior of hagia sophia is lined with enormous marble slabs that are said to have been designed to imitate moving water. It is between two half domes which together equals to the diameters of the dome.
Graphics hagia sophia is a vast domed basilica that towers to height of a 15 story building. This image should be the most beautiful photograph that includes the dome of hagia sophia. The use of pendentives by isidore marked the first large scale.
Nevertheless it s unique in a style of putting a dome on a square base which combines the secular power of a dome and the spirituality of christianity with a basilica form. The hexapterygon six winged angel on the north east pendentive upper left whose face was discovered and recovered by the fossati brothers uncovered in 2009. And the hagia sophia s 104 columns were imported from the temple of.
Even though it was made by an intention of leaving behind the buildings made up to that time the dome of pantheon is larger. The dome of hagia sophia is the most striking element in the structure. The reason i had to share this photo is the restoration scaffolding which has been standing in hagia sophia for 15 years this pile of iron had been removed for only one.
The dome of the hagia sophia. This is the only picture that does not belong to me in the photo collection i shared in this article. The hagia sophia dome is supported by four pendentives that were built at each corner of the square base of the cathedral.