Minecraft mega buildings - Byzantine Hagia Sophia

[SpongeArts]

its a shame they made added towers to make it a mosque. A shame of humanity to ruin a building like that, that has been there for hundreds, if not a thousand years. If they want mosques they can build them somewhere else. They ruined a piece of history.

[Haryobbb]

Hagia Sophia is now Mosque not church again

[dumanistbk]

you forgot minarets.

[AxuofFinland]

How long did it take to build that thing? :O

[gankerzzz]

This is a really nice build! And its nice to see that someone is aware of the fact that is wasent the turks that build that wonderful building!

[MrDatsunInsult]

amazing...

[TheChaosDice]

Very nice and impressive building :)

and god bless you my orthodox brother

because you left out those minarett towers!

[123Godfreak]

@TheChaosDice i know but one day people like the turks will give Constantinople to the Orthodox because Christ wills it

[TheChaosDice]

@123Godfreak Well i hope so my brother :)

The strength we have is our christian behvavior, not the violence.

And this will god see, and he will judge after this.

[Benstewart618]

Where did you find that Gregorian chant type song?

[wiedzmin777]

@Benstewart618

It's a Byzantine chant not Gregorian.

I found it on Youtube. It's a Psalm 22 performed by monks from Simonpetras monastery.

[maskedman422]

this looks just like the real thing, Justinian would be so proud

[1337Kosu]

Well im going to use this for my server based off of Assassin's Creed Revelations. I may build the towers and the city itself. Thanks for this amazing build!

[Razor1993Turk]

But Hagia Sophia is more beautiful how it is today. it is now a Mosque!

Hagia Sophia = Mosque = Very Beautiful!

[Efstratlive]

@Razor1993Turk Not a mosque... Museum...

[TheChaosDice]

@Razor1993Turk Das zeigt einfach nur wie intolerant der Islam ist.

stell dir vor wir würden eine Moschee beanspruchen und eine Kirche daraus machen, findest du das auch "Very Beatiful" ?

Weiterhin ist es lächerlich das die Moschee Hagia Sophia heißt und somit zu Ehren der Heiligen Sophia von griechisch orthodoxer Hand gebaut ist.

[Razor1993Turk]

@TheChaosDice what a fucking language are u talking? Dogish?

Can you speak human language so i can understand u ;) THX ;)

[Razor1993Turk]

@TheChaosDice

hmm ok i used Google translate, and set it to [Doggish] to [English].

first : any Religion on this world takes the Buildings of the old one, in ROM there are many Churches that was Temples before ;)

the same happents with Hagia Sophia ;) now it is a Mosque ;) but now i see how dumb u are, u say "why is it called Hagia bla bla" Its called like that just for the Christians.

We call it "Ayasofia" so shut the fuck up Your fucking Racist Nazi!!!

[TheChaosDice]

@Razor1993Turk

Dude your english sucks hardcore.

And what names you're calling me, but fact is you are so ignorant!

Ayasofia and Hagia Sophia have the same pronounciation dude!

both are the same greek Αγια Σοφια.

you are talking bullshit.

Its was a selffish statement of yours when you said now its a more beatiful mosque.

That was the reason for my correct.

Don't get that angry little stupid child.

[Razor1993Turk]

@TheChaosDice

it is more beatiful as an Mosque! you ever was in Istanbul? i dont think so ;)

look this video and u will agree : watch?v=PMMIUFAbwuo&feature=re­lated

hmm u are talking about Language of the Mosque, but your first position was "why is Islam so intolerant"

and then i sayed that the Christians did that too, and now u changed your positions and clamp on the name.

HWO interests the name? the Mosque is called Ayasofya!

[123Godfreak]

@Razor1993Turk Are you retarted who are you to talk your a TURK!!! STFU!!!! GOD

you dont even know what it looked like when it was a HOLY CHURCH. GOD you stupid small brained monkey anus! I should through a bible at you. Mosques are better yeah shore!!!! LOL DUMBASS Go back to mecca and leave the dome of the rock to the JEWS

[Razor1993Turk]

@123Godfreak

I am a Turk ;) i know everything better than you cuz im a freacking Turk ;) loool

and u are just a oh i forgott the name... ah right a geek ähm i mean greek.

I mean hwo was the nation hwo bombed the biggest wall in the World in Istambul down and concuered Istanbul??

Yes we Turks ;) and now Greece has no money, how u want get Istanbul back?

Lool

why i should go "Back" to mecca? i never was there, but i hope sometime god will allow me and i will :)

[123Godfreak]

@Razor1993Turk you turks are high and mighty but not for long (; hahahahahahahaha and if i am correct which i am, the only reason the OTTOMANS conqured Constantinoplis is because the Byzantines were weak. they had no money,no army all because of the Crusaders! So dont get sny to me foolish Mongol we practicaly invented your way of thinking hahaha Dont like it than die or wait......

[123Godfreak]

@Razor1993Turk If your country tries being a dick Greece can always remind you on your countless Genocides hahaha. What happened to germany over that is what will happen to you. PONTOS=TREBZONE

[Razor1993Turk]

@123Godfreak

hmm whats happend to Germany? they were conquered by great Britain yes, but GB also tryed at with Turkey but Turkey fuck them in the Ass ;) cuz of thatwe are Called "Turks" cuz we are nno Turks "Turk" is just a nickname our real name is Ottoman, the Chinese gived us the Nickname "Turk" cuz Turk means "Mighty".

Lol byzantine(constantinopel) was the riches city at this time WTF are u talking u poor gayreek haha

[123Godfreak]

@Razor1993Turk hwat are you retarted Great britan screwed theottomans that led to the downfall of the ottomans dumbass. The russians screwed you that is if it was for the rest of the world. Not sure ill give dates: 1781 europe was done witht ottomans so they allowed russia to fuck use. Then they pushed all the way into Constantinople until Britan made them backout and theyre the empire was allowed to continue. Look it up. And yes the by the end Byzantines were poor as fuck. Thats why we lost.

[adamobarca]

wow, great build, great build!

[hadlock]

This is very impressive, I am about half way through my Hagia Sophia build as well, but gave up due to being in SMP mode. It looks like we used the same general dimensions; the Hagia Sophia JUST fits inside the Minecraft world at sea level if you use a 1:1 scale. My build looks very similar, but is at a much earlier stage.

It's worth pointing out to others that there are several domes in this sort of build, and the total build site is ~80x80 blocks. It's a huge effort to finish this thing.

[vevBC]

Are you Orthodox?

[wiedzmin777]

@vevBC

Yes, I am.

[vevBC]

@wiedzmin777

Me too, I respect you for that building!

[vevBC]

@wiedzmin777

And also thank you very much for the Orthodox music in the background. God bless you! I'm also building a church, but a modern era Orthodox Church. Greetings from Romania!

[RanceMC]

@wiedzmin777 I'm orthodox too, i'm from Russia!

[RanceMC]

@RanceMC Where is ICONOSTASIS?

[wiedzmin777]

@RanceMC See -->1:57

In front of the chancel.

[minus271]

thumb up if you muted the sound

[gre8]

I wanted to see what you built behind the iconostasis

[mrh3tic]

next add in the mozaics xD

[easternshock]

I have visited the Hagia Sophia so many times, I even gave a tour there once...

[jakerslake]

this is great almost flawless (if you have the texture pack) but on the inside i could be more radiant, and the church had a two story altar

[mrdentul]

great job :)

[Stalinsurfstheweb]

Byzantine Empire = Greek

[leonidhaimov]

Cool, what about towers?

[wiedzmin777]

@leonidhaimov

There isn't towers, because this is a reconstruction of orthodox basilica which was in byzantine era.

[shredstein927]

@leonidhaimov Those towers are muslim minarets, when the turks conquered Constantinople they turned it from a cathedral to a mosque.

[MrRandomshoe]

Even in minecraft it shows just how much the Emperor Justinian wanted to the world he was the master of the world and only second to God. But to who built this, this is one of the greatest minecraft mega-builds I have ever seen my hat goes off to you kind Gentlemen.

[MrRandomshoe]

Even in minecraft it shows just how much the Emperor Justinian wanted to the world he was the master of the world and only second to God.

[3077BIODROID]

dude, one word. Incredible, and you have way too much time on your hands. How long did it take to make, and what did you do as a reference. Are the doors and banners mods? Incredible

[magicsXfive]

this is spectacular

[aarilaxox]

I want the world save with that.

[Gunnarr123abc]

@aarilaxox

I second that!

[wiedzmin777]

@aarilaxox

I finally upload this on rapidshare.

DOWNLOAD LINK IN DESCRIPTION!

[Gunnarr123abc]

Christos anesti!

[wiedzmin777]

@Gunnarr123abc

Alithos Anesti!!!

[MNiemampomyslunanick]

Nice

[MrNocturnal310]

I just watched this because of assassins creed revelations

[letardmarc]

amazing building. I will do the same

[ImonfireProductions]

forgot the towers

[mrh3tic]

@ImonfireProductions there never were towers, it was a christian church

[jarvis15]

@ImonfireProductions Hagia Sophia as a Christian basilica originally didn't have towers - those were added by the Turks when it was converted to a Mosque.

[YaKnowBob]

awesome!!!!!!

[DaronGothic]

Epicka budowla :D i mam pytanie czy masz możliwość udostępnienia planów oczywiście jeżeli masz

[wiedzmin777]

@DaronGothic

Linki do planów podałem w opisie.

[Duncun506back]

FAJNY BUDYNEK!!! Ale daj ponownie twoje serie z Gothica :3