Medievalists.net » Hagia Sophia http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 A Spectacle of Great Beauty: The Changing Faces of Hagia Sophia http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/28/a-spectacle-of-great-beauty-the-changing-faces-of-hagia-sophia/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/28/a-spectacle-of-great-beauty-the-changing-faces-of-hagia-sophia/#comments Wed, 29 Aug 2012 03:48:52 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35214 For Constantine, Justinian, Sultan Mehmed II, and Atatürk, Hagia Sophia served as a model for the changing political and religious ideals of a nation. To use the useful phrase coined by Linda Young, Hagia Sophia is a building that is “in between heritage.”

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