. Construction : a journal for the architectural engineering and contracting interests of Canada . plete this work! OSolomon, I have evensurpassed thee! Fourwhite minarets addedby Mohammed II.,1453, rise above thewhite and rose-colored ^^^ ^^^ walls. Upon the interior one hundred and sevengigantic and beautiful pillars of green marble andred porphyry support the four arches which in turnuphold the illustrious dome with its forty marble columns were imported from Phrygia,Egypt, Rome, Athens, the Cyclades and its entirety it is a temple of marble, metals, ivory,pearls
. Construction : a journal for the architectural engineering and contracting interests of Canada . plete this work! OSolomon, I have evensurpassed thee! Fourwhite minarets addedby Mohammed II.,1453, rise above thewhite and rose-colored ^^^ ^^^ walls. Upon the interior one hundred and sevengigantic and beautiful pillars of green marble andred porphyry support the four arches which in turnuphold the illustrious dome with its forty marble columns were imported from Phrygia,Egypt, Rome, Athens, the Cyclades and its entirety it is a temple of marble, metals, ivory,pearls and cedar gathered from the entire world andstands a living monument to the skill and artisticnature of its creators. The previous conflagrationspersuaded Justinian to use little wood. He enrichedthe walls with mosaics; made the doors of silver gilt,ivory, amber and cedar: laid the pavement in marbleso veined as to present the appearance of water flow-ing through. Enormous green disks with pious in-scriptions in gold are hung to the upper gallery,while the cartouches lower down are of porphyry. bearing the names of Allah, the Prophet and hisCaliphs. Ferguson says: The eye wanders up-wards from the large arcades of the ground floor tothe smaller arches of the galleries, and thence to thesmaller semi-domes. These lead the eye to thelarger, and the whole culminates in the great centralroof. Nothing, probably, so artistic has been doneon the same scale before or since. So far as theinterior is concerned, no Gothic architect ever rose tothe conception of a hallone hundred feet wide,two hundred and fiftyfeet in length and onehundred and eighty feethigh, and none everdisposed each part moreartistically to obtain theeffect he desired to pro-duce. In fact, compareit as we may withany other buildings ofits class, the verdict, in-ternally at least, is thatSan Sophia is the most i<^ perfect and most beau- tiful church which has yet been erected by anyChristian people. The tower of Galat
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