Hagia Sophia means church of holy wisdom, it was built in Constantinople in 532-537 AD. they solved the structural problem of putting a dome on a rectangle by using triangular pendentives on all corners of the inside. the four towers around the hagia Sophia are called minarets, which are bell towers that call the Muslim people to prayer. the church split in 726, two groups were created. the "Iconoclasts" believed there should be no images of anything and the "prevservationists" wanted to keep all images already made, but didn't want to make new ones. either way, there was no art created for over 100 years. so instead of art, the produced a lot of churches.
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