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Serena Bowles | profile | all galleries >> Travel >> The Middle East and Africa 2002-03 >> The Trip >> Turkey >> Istanbul >> Aya Sofia tree view | thumbnails | slideshow

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Aya Sofia

The Church of the Divine Wisdom. Called Hagia Sophia in Greek, this gargantuan building was erected between 532 and 537 AD by Emperor Justinian. It was converted to a mosque in 1453 by Mehmet the Conqueror

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Aya Sophia
Aya Sophia		 Aya Sophia
Aya Sophia		 Aya Sophia ceiling
Aya Sophia ceiling

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Serena Bowles19-Oct-2004 03:16
Well regardless of who's god is worshipped there, it's a magnificent piece of architecture.

Personally, being a Buddhist, I accept all religions as being a different view of the same one truth. At the heart of all of them is the basic premise: be good to one another. It's the human interpreters of religion that sometimes get it all messed up.
anthony 17-Oct-2004 14:36
i support u absolutely!!!
Alexo 31-Oct-2003 14:39
This church will never bi a mosque, no mather what muslims say!
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