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A THOUSAND years and more before St. Peter's was consecrated at Rome, Justinian had built his great church at Constantinople and dedicated it to Divine Wisdom, the title of the earlier church on the same site. Until yesterday it was a mosque and had been a mosque during nearly five centuries since the Turks conquered the city and ruled Istanbul. Today it has been converted into a museum of Byzantine Art. Haghia Sophia was incomparably more richly built than any other church in Christendom and was more richly endowed with treasure. Into it poured the wealth of an empire to adorn the imperial place of worship, and everything combined to make it the most illustrious of Christian shrines. Legend has gathered round this building. It has been the theme of poems, the subject of history, the object of architectural study; but it also excited the greed of Europe, and not only the ravages of time, but the sacrilegious hands of western Christians also robbed it of its wealth accumulated to the service of God. All that was portable was stolen from the Church when, in 1204, the city was sacked in the Fourth Crusade. What remained in the edifice, however, as we can judge for ourselves, sufficed

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Author

Thomas Whittemore

Published

1942

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)