Sunday, 29 April 2018

Hagia Sofia / Thessaloniki

Domed Basilica dating from C8 AD and included in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1988. Built with alternating bands of white masonry and brick, with an Ottoman minaret added when it was used as a mosque. Thessaloniki, Greece.
The interior mosaics and paintings arose over several centuries, the Ascension scene in the dome said to be from C9, although restored in 1980 after the 1917 fire and 1978 earthquake. Thessaloniki, Greece.