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The Hagias Sophia
The Hagias Sophia designers creatively joint the longitudinal construction of a Roman cathedral and the dominant strategy of a drum-supported dome, in order to endure the high greatness earthquakes of the Marmara Area, On the other hand, in the time of May 558, slight more than 20 years after the Church’s devotion, following the earthquakes of August 553 and December 557, portions of the center dome and its second supporting construction system bent. The Hagias Sophia was frequently broken by earthquakes and was right away fixed. Isidore of Miletus’ nephew, Isidore the Younger, familiarized the new dome project that can be observed in the Hagia Sophia in contemporary day Istanbul, Turkey. After a countless earthquake in 989 tumbledown the

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