Istanbul - Hagia Sophia Museum Mahmut I Library
Hagia Sophia was a Eastern Orthodox abbey at Byzantine aeon which completed in 537. It aswell accepted as the Ayasofya Architecture and Abbey of Holy Wisdom. It was adapted to a abbey at Ottoman aeon afterwards Fatih Sultan Mehmed II baffled Constantinople in 29 May 1453. Afterwards 1935, it was adapted into a museum. Hagia Sophia is neighbour to Topkapı Palace and Blue Abbey (Sultanahmet Camii) in Istanbul.
Hagia Sophia is accepted as one of the greatest barrio of the apple and about advised the Eighth Wonder of the World.
Some architecture details: The works was started on December 23, 532 AD and completed on December 27, 537. The admeasurement of the close amplitude of basilica is 100×70m and it is covered by the arresting arch (diameter 30.31m. afterwards some restoration, it was absent its absolute annular arch schema), accurate by the four ample piers, 55m high.
There are just 3 beyond abbey afterwards Hagia Sophia all about the world. They are St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, St.Peter’s Basilica in Vatican and Duomo in Milan.
It is amid two bank supports at the southern allotment of Ayasophia. It is an absorbing artefact of Turkish architecture and adorning arThe allowance of the books consists of two spaces afar by 4 columns ts. It was congenital by Sultan Mahmud I in 1739. The library consists of a account room, the allowance area the books were kept beneath aegis (hazine-i kutub) and a aisle amid these two sections.
Reading allowance is afar from the capital amplitude of Ayasophia with a bottle allotment built-in by six colons with design shaped capitals and covered with a brownish mesh. The bifold doors of the access are aswell covered with a brownish cobweb busy with flowers and scrolling branches and has two handles engraved with ‘Ya Fettah1. The walls of the account allowance are busy with tiles and calligraphic friezes. On the bank adverse to the door, there is the porphyry cipher of Sultan Mahmud I, belted with blooming tiles.
The aisle abutting the account allowance and the book accumulator is busy with asphalt panels with flower, rose, carnation, tulip and cypress motives. These panels are different in agreement of blush and form.
The allowance of the books consists of two spaces afar by 4 columns and a platform. The aboriginal area is covered with a arch and the additional with a vault. The arch rests on an octagonal ring. There is a board book buffet at the centermost of this space. On the central of the aperture which is the access to this area from the aisle there is the cipher of Sultan Mahmud I and a 15 disyichs agreement about the architecture catastrophe with the date h. 1152. (1739).
Iznik, Kutahya and Tekfur alcazar tiles of 16 -17 -18th centuries were acclimated in aggregate in the library. The 16th aeon Iznik tiles in the book allowance and the flowered bounce branches agreement on the tiles of the aisle which are from the aforementioned century, are a part of the best examples of the Turkish asphalt art.