10 April 428 — 22 June 431 | 19th-century restoration [ ] Following the building's conversion into a mosque in 1453, many of its mosaics were covered with plaster, due to Islam's ban on representational imagery |
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He erected again and reinforced the fallen dome arch, and rebuilt the west side of the dome with 15 dome ribs | From the time of Procopius in the reign of Justinian, the equestrian imperial statue on the in the beside Hagia Sophia, which gestured towards Asia with right hand, was understood to represent the emperor holding back the threat to the Romans from the in the , while the orb or held in the statue's left was an expression of the global power of the Roman emperor |
[ ] An edition of from drawings made during the Fossatis' work on Hagia Sophia was published in in 1852, entitled: Aya Sophia of Constantinople as Recently Restored by Order of H.
Philippides, Marios; Hanak, Walter K | Ljudmila Djukic 9 September 2019 |
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The church was to the , the , the second of the | , , The Avar Siege of Constantinople in 626: History and Legend, New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp |
This reconstruction, which gave the church its present 6th-century form, was completed in 562.
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