Sujet
Interior of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey, 19th century. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Interior of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey, 19th century. View of carved wooden minbar and Islamic texts inside the building while it was a mosque. Built in the 6th century by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian, the Hagia Sophia (Aya Sofya) was intended to be the greatest church in Christendom. It remained the centre of the Byzantine Empire and the Eastern Orthodox Church until 1453 when Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks. It was then converted into a mosque, which it remained until secularised and turned into a museum by order of Kemal Ataturk in 1934.
The Print Collector collection
Date
1840
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM19D55_275
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
85,3Mo (4,4Mo) / 40,2cm x 53,1cm / 4752 x 6271 (300dpi)