hapdet kat opis ...
Cam x der mood nak wat recon ...
June is kaming...
Ader aper ngan June ???
our year end la ...
every year pun year end... BOSAN!!!
nka brenti ... mmmph
apo lak nka buek kek umah ...
keje la jugak.
tinggalkn recon recon ntah hape hape ni dulu
Jom kiter sambung yuk ...
Next was Hagia Sophia @ Aya Sophia.
Entrance fee ... TL25/paxmasuk ajer mulut da ternganga ...
Waaaaaaah .....
The building was massive!!
Words just cannot describe...
I think i've seen it over n over again in
National Geographic
pics from most of the blogs ...
but, i tell u ...
bila tengok sendiri ...
memang sangat sangat sangat osem!!!!!
a little info on Aya Sofia.
I've watch the history of Aya Sofia on astro channel 555-History.
Hagia Sophia is a former Greek Orthodox basilica church, later an imperial mosque, and now a museum. The date of its construction was in 537 until 1453. The building was a mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931. It was then secularized and opened as a museum on 1 February 1935.
The first church on the site was known as the "Great Church because of its larger dimensions in comparison to the contemporary churches in the City. Inaugurated on 15 February 360 (during the reign of Constantius II), it was built next to the area where the imperial palace was being developed. The nearby Hagia Irene church was completed earlier and served as cathedral until the Great Church was completed. Both churches acted together as the principal churches of the Byzantine Empire. During the subsequent riots, this first church was largely burned down. Nothing remains of the first church today.
A second church was ordered by Theodosius II, who inaugurated it on 10 October 415. The basilica with a wooden roof was built by architect Rufinus. A fire started during the tumult of theNika Revolt and burned the second Hagia Sophia to the ground on 13–14 January 532.
The third church. On 23 February 532, only a few weeks after the destruction of the second basilica, Emperor Justinian I decided to build a third and entirely different basilica, larger and more majestic than its predecessors. The emperor had material brought from all over the empire such as Hellenistic columns from theTemple of Artemis at Ephesus, large stones from quarries from Egypt, green marble from Thessaly, black stone from theBosphorus region, and yellow stone from Syria. More than ten thousand people were employed. The emperor, together with the Patriarch Menas, inaugurated the new basilica on 27 December 537 – 5 years and 10 months after construction start. The mosaics inside the church were, however, only completed under the reign of Emperor Justin II (565–578).
Constaninople was taken by the Ottomans on 29 May 1453. Sultan Mehmed II ordered a renovation as well as the conversion. Mehmet attended the first Friday prayer in the mosque on 1 June 1453. In 1935, the first Turkish President and founder of the Republic of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atarturk, transformed the building into a museum.
Stop cni duluu .... (◕‿◕)
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