Hagia Sophia: Church, Mosque, Museum
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History
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Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, the Great Church of the emperors of Rome and the patriarchs of Constantinople, assumed its definitive form in the 6th century ce, the work of the architects Anthemios of Tralles and Isidore of Miletus. A dichotomy between East and West, Rome and Persia, was built into its fabric and determined its rhetorical presentation from the start. This oppositional view coexisted alongside a universalist view of the building, whose geometric perfection evokes an ecumenical divinity.
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