Byzantium, the Lost Empire (3/4): Envy of the World - ABTV (1997)

[SleepWhenIamDead]

....what a great series.....

[RWJsSon]

i went inside of hagia sophia since 2nd augest. lol its looks like a mix of mosque and church.

[AntiDefm]

@RWJsSon and ... the whole place smells as stink as Turks' feet. What a pity!

[RWJsSon]

@AntiDefm lol

[jagdtigertube]

@RWJsSon Sad to see so many people don't appreciate the beauty of the Hagia Sophia. If you know a damn thing about either Islamic or Western culture, you would realize that the modern mosque is based upon the Muslim encounter with the Hagia Sophia.

It inspired the mosque. It also did the same to the West, while they deviated with their own Gothic style, the very interior and layout of Western Churches is fundamentally based upon the inspiration of the Hagia Sophia.

[ismaelvanwijk]

The Haghia Sophia is nowadays neither a church or a mosque but a museum reflecting the past of the Haghia Sophia, where Christian images and Muslim caligraphy are seen brotherly next to eachother. A beautifull place.

[RaulMeatFactorys]

@ismaelvanwijk  Brotherly??? Where you laughing when typing that?