Showing posts with label hagia sophia. Show all posts
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Geo Special, Istanbul in Istanbul on page 146 introduces the latest edition of specially prepared

The cover of the magazine publishes photo of Istanbul's Hagia Sophia wrote that a world city.

Berlin, Vienna and Zurich and Istanbul in comparison with some statistics of the magazine, Istanbul;'s throwing a big difference in this urban population, and some other issues, he said.

Special issue magazine, is currently busy as a museum, visitors flocked to the church is 1500 years before the Hagia Sophia by Fatih Sultan Mehmet conquered Istanbul in 1453 and since converted into a mosque wrote.

Two continents, Istanbul is the only metropolis in the world as the city defines the magazine, next to the historic sites of Istanbul, the current life has included photos and interviews.

Istanbul, "the water side of the world," the city is highlighted in the article adds to the beauty of the Bosphorus in Istanbul were recorded separately.

The magazine futures Istanbul, Üsküdar, girl, tower, watch the sun set right, listen to the call to prayer, hookah, drink, go to the baths, and was advised to make full ride. cumhuriyet

Ukrainian women FEME group member 4, the action was the Hagia Sophia Square.

At noon, from a vehicle in front of Hagia Sophia FEME group Inna Shevchenko, Tayiana Zatserkovna, IANA Zhdanova and Oleksandra Shevchenko descending from the vehicle began to run at a time.
Protesters in just underwear on them girls, 8 March International Women's Day to protest the actions that violence against women. Turkish, "Stolen Lives" and the English currency, which resembles a woman who was beaten by FEME way girls painted their faces were seen. FEME daughters who started running in front of the Hagia Sophia, female police officers intervened. Women cops, naked activists were detained. FEME daughters were taken into custody, police vehicle was taken to safety boarded.

FEME, organizing a protest in front of the Embassy of Turkey in Ukraine three years ago, the Turkish authorities, Turkish men "to raise awareness about the Ukraine is not a brothel," urged.

Photo: Vedat Arık

three places visited most by tourists Topkapi Palace Museum, Hagia Sophia Museum and Ephesus

Topkapi Palace Museum, a total of 3 million 767 thousand 410, St. Sophia Museum, the ruins of Ephesus and 3 million 196 thousand 110 people visited the Place de 1 million 999 thousand 959.
Ministry of Culture and Tourism, according to information obtained from General Directorate of Monuments and Museums, the most favorite destinations of tourists in 2011, and was built in 1478 by Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror and the official residence of the Ottoman Empire 380 years used as the administration center of the Topkapi Palace Museum, considered one of the world's most important architectural structures in the borough of the 1475-year-old Hagia Sophia Museum and Selcuk ruins of Ephesus was based on years of establishment 6000'li BC.

Last year, the Topkapi Palace Museum, 3 million 767 thousand 410 people visited. Visitors from the Topkapi Palace Museum in total revenue was 56 million 664 thousand 477 dollars.
Which ranked second visit to the Hagia Sophia Museum, 3 million 196 thousand 110 people, while the income from visitors was 48 million 577 thousand 440 dollars.
Ruins of Ephesus with a total of 1 million 999 thousand 959 people took third place. Proceeds from the ruins of Ephesus Flourist was 31 million 431 thousand 525 dollars.

Mevlana Museum and Hierapolis

Mevlana Museum in Konya and Denizli in which Hierapolis ruins are among the most visited tourists. Mevlana Museum, 1 million 735 thousand 424 people last year, replaced by the ruins of Hierapolis in Denizli 1 million 625 thousand 143 people visited.
Museums and historical sites in Turkey, a total of 28 million 462 thousand 893 tourists while visiting last year, visits were obtained from 253 million 892 thousand 756 dollars of income.
In 2010 25 million 854 thousand 341 museums and historical sites in 2009 was 21 million 233 thousand 722 people visited.

Modern, safe, fast, air-conditioned and comfortable trams in Istanbul



Modern, safe, fast, air-conditioned and comfortable trams in Istanbul .

There's a nice contrast in one way between the ultra-modern sleek-looking trams and the very old architecture between Aksaray and Eminönü stations. Along this particular stretch of line there are a number of historic places to visit including the Grand Bazaar, Blue Mosque, Hagia Sophia, Topkapi Palace and the new Mosque. Even the main railway station - Istanbul Gar - has some interesting features worth seeing.

One researcher, almost at the bottom of a liquid such as the phantom of the Hagia Sophia continues to handle the secrets of

One researcher, continues to dredge up those under the plaster, such as the Hagia Sophia and see the ghost of what is ... 




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Hagia Sophia is a term supervision on behalf of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, who, four six-winged Seraphim angel's face as the opening of one of the mosaic work in the world who signed the acclaimed architect Hasan Firat Diker (Fatih Sultan Mehmet, the Foundation University faculty member), Fossati'nin catches up.

Fossati brothers, during the reigns of Sultan (1847-1851 to) the Hagia Sophia served as the restoration and interior decoration works. Hagia Sophia is a liquid obtained by boiling the mortar mixture of ash tree leaves are used in the new work that highlights the Diker Based on the changes made by the two brothers, Gaspare Fossati'nin Hagia Sophia's stunning claims. Under the main dome of the Hagia Sophia that the Seraphim angels covering their faces with masks of zinc in the plastering and Gaspare Fossati'nin itself.

Foundation University faculty

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half dome DEV Fossati brothers to work, "Profan" meaning "away from religious interference," said Diker, until now the lack of adequate documentation on the causes of this issue connects irdelenmemesini Fossati'nin interventions. Fossati'nin later closed during repairs, but the angel is a mosaic of other works not so lucky, the Hagia Sophia mosque used as a composition of a line from the Ottoman period. Fossati, corresponding to the top of the altar, on the eastern half-dome decorations updated in line with its own aesthetic understanding. And a half-dome, I. Ahmed, engraved with the period considered in the closed above the composition of the huge line. This great article was written into the frame of an equilateral trapezoid now drawn only a few hundred years ago, gravure can be seen.

Christian Hagia Sophia

TEXT DESIGNS 


deciphered Diker, line engravings of the composition of review can be read only with a picture, D'Ohsson'un managed to decipher the text. Composition, 35 of Surat al-Nur All except the last sentence of the first phrases written in verse. The main dome of Hagia Sophia is still the center of Surat an-Nur 35 The first half of the verse's. "If you Fossati, after removing the plaster that contains the text of this article have implemented their own ornaments are gone now," says Diker. "But the decorations on top of the article is made directly reveal, or at least be able to reach the traces. In the case of technological imaging devices can also be taken in this regard the results more clearly, "he continues. Diker, Fossati'nin repair process under study was built for the Sultan in the reigns Mahfili'ndeki Sultan points out that an interesting detail. With the column headers in the gallery, made up of four sides motifte, international Masonic compass and square symbols were stylized fiction suggests. Diker, "which is of universal importance for the world of Islam and the Christian Hagia Sophia, the Tanzimat reforms at a time when this kind of meaningful symbolic quest to go. Reforms began in 1839 when a wooden Abdülmecid movements. Nasiplendiği westernization movements in the Hagia Sophia in a symbolic sense can be considered. "He says.

name Hagia Sophia "Holy Wisdom" or "divine wisdom" in terms

Hagia Sophia (Greek: Αγιά Σοφιά, full name: Ναός τῆς Ἁγίας τοῦ Θεοῦ Σοφίας, Latin: Sancta Sophia or Sancta Sapientia), The Byzantine Emperor Anno Domini by Justinian 532 to 537 between the old city center of Istanbul's historic peninsula, the patriarch's cathedral is a basilica built displaced, receipt of Istanbul by the Turks in 1453 turned into a mosque by Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror and today serves as a museum.
Hagia Sophia , in terms of architecture, with a basilica plan, incorporating a central plan, a domed basilica with a dome-type structure and properties of the transition and the structural system is considered to be a turning point in the history of architecture.

The building, called "Sofia" is not the word to any one name, the ancient Greek "wisdom" is the meaning of the word sophos. Therefore, "Hagia Sophia" is called "holy wisdom" or "divine wisdom" is a means, Orthodoxy, God mezhepinde 'is considered one of the three qualities.of the 6th century the famous architect of Milet and Tralles'li Isidoros Anthemius'un , directed the construction of St. Sophia's approximately 10,000 workers worked Justinian spent a great fortune, and is specified for the job. This is a very old building, used to make a feature of some of the columns, doors and stone buildings and temples, is the introduction of an older structure. Byzantine period Patriarch of Constantinople, the patriarch in the church and the Eastern Orthodox Church was the center of the Hagia Sophia, once a major natural as the "holy relics" consisted of a collection.

After the Ottoman sultan Mehmet the Conqueror converted the church into a mosque in 1453, showed great tolerance mozayiklerinden containing human figures have not been destroyed (as in not containing the left), only a thin stucco plaster covered and the centuries under the remaining mozayikler thus survived destruction of natural and artificial. A mosque converted into a museum is a part of the plaster removed and brought to light again mozayikler. In short, all the peoples of the world today to see this mozayikleri owes to a person: he, the art of showing love and respect for other religions, the sultan of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmet'tir. Today, essentially the same place in the building of the Hagia Sophia church was built for the third time that the Hagia Sophia is also known as the Third. The first two churches were destroyed during the riots. Sophia is the largest dome in the period of the central dome collapsed several times during the Byzantine period, from adding you ever collapsed because of Mimar Sinan building retaining walls.