文档介绍：圣索菲亚大教堂
Hagia Sophia is famous in particular for its massive dome in Istanbul, Turkey, it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture and is said to have "changed the history of architecture." It was the largest cathedral in the world for nearly a thousand years, until Seville Cathedral pleted in 1520.
圣索菲亚大教堂是位于现今土耳其伊斯坦布尔的宗教建筑,因其巨大的圆顶而闻名于世,是一幢“改变了建筑史”的拜占庭式建筑典范。在1520年被塞维利亚主教座堂取代之前圣索菲亚大教堂一直是世界上最大的教堂。
It were named after Saint Sophia, Sophia is the ic spelling in Latin of the Greek word for wisdom--- "Church of the Holy Wisdom of God".
大教堂以一位名为索菲亚的圣人而命名,因此称为“圣索菲亚”。这个词在希腊语里的意思是上帝智慧。其拉丁语名称则为Sancta Sophia,解作“上帝圣智教堂。,
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From the date of its dedication in 360 until 1453, it served as the Greek Patriarchal cathedral of Constantinople.
The current building was originally constructed as a church between 532 and 537 on the orders of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian and was the third Church of the Holy Wisdom to occupy the site, the previous two having both been destroyed by rioters. It was designed by the Greek scientists Isidore of Miletus, a physicist, and Anthemius of Tralles, a mathematician. 在该教堂伫立的地点曾经存在过两座被***摧毁的教堂,公元532年拜占庭皇帝查士丁尼一世下令建造第三所教堂。在拜占庭雄厚的国力支持之下,由物理学家米利都的伊西多尔及数学家特拉勒斯的安提莫斯设计的这所教堂在公元537年便完成了其建造。刚竣工时的圣索菲亚大教堂是正教会牧首巴西利卡形制的大教堂,
In 1453, Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Turks under Sultan Mehmed II, who subsequently ordered the building converted in