Ministry of EducationSoyuz Bilingual School

Santa Sophia of ConstantinopleGroup: 7ºAStudents:

Sthefany AparicioCristina MendozaMelanie Saavedra

José L. GuillenLeopoldo Correa

Karol CedeñoMiguel Núñez

SHAKESPEARE 2013

Santa Sophia of Constantinople

Santa Sofia or Hagia Sophia was a former Orthodox Patriarchal Basilica, later converted into a mosque and now a museum, in the city of Istanbul, Turkey. Sophia is in reality the phonetic transcription into latin from the Greek word "wisdom". The temple was dedicated to the Divine Wisdom; a picture taken from the Book of the wisdom of the Old Testament, that makes reference to the embodiment of the wisdom of God or second person of the Blessed Trinity.

Basilica of St. Sophia church, consecrated to the Holy Wisdom, considered as the main building of Byzantine Constantinople (now Istanbul) and one of the most relevant of the history of architecture. It was designed and built by anthemion) immediately below it of Tralles and Isidore of Miletus between the years 532 and 537, commissioned by the emperor Justinian I

From the date of its dedication in the year 360 and until 1453 served as the patriarchal cathedral of Constantinople, except between 1204 and 1261 that was converted into a cathedral during the catholic Latin Patriarchate of Constantinople from the Latin Empire, established by the crusaders.

After the Ottoman invasion the building was transformed into a mosque, keeping this function from the May 29 from 1453 until 1931, date on which it was secularized. On 1 February 1935 was opened as a museum.

The emperor Constantine was the

first to build a church on the site

of the current Sofia, when in 336 he

became to Byzantium, under the new name of

Constantinople, in the capital of the eastern Roman empire. Called

"meggale ekklesia", a great church.

MOSAICS OF THE BASILICA

Deésis Virgin and Jesus in the Ábside

Mosaic of the Virginwith Constantine and Justinian

MOSAICS OF THE BASILICA

Mosaic of the door of the Emperor.

Family Mosaic Comneno

Mosaic of Zoe and her husband.

MOSAICS OF THE BASILICA

Virgin with the child the XIII century.

St. John Chrysostom

ART AND ARCHITECTURE

ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Painting and sculpture were designed in Byzantium as arts ancillary or supplementary of the architecture. Worked on all the tiles for decoration (walls and vaults). On the other hand, were highlighted in the so-called industrial arts': the manufacture of jewelry and all kinds of luxury objects, made with gold, silver and precious stones; the silk fabrics; the embroidery and the bindings, very appreciated in the regions we traded.

ART AND ARCHITECTURE

The plant is a rectangle of 77 x 71 meters.

Worked in this building over ten thousand workers. The greatest element is the big dome, 32 meters in diameter and 56 meters above the ground.

IMAGES OF THE INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR

During millennium and a half is the singing and admire as wonder of the world; a monument of the great human culture as until now it has become to create another.

REMAIN OF THE BASILICA

Shows the Lamb of God