In l' year 326, Constantinople was arranged on banks of the Bosphorus, by l' emperor Constantin. Thirty years later, its successor built his first large church - and finally called Hagia Sophia - but it was only 172 years before the riots presses burned on the ground. This event, in 532, was perhaps of good omen: It occurred during the reign of Justinien the Builder, which would give to the world of sublime tent the “of the skies” which is always upright and in the creation of which “God surely took part."

The rebuilding just began 39 days after the destruction of l' primitive church. The gigantic structure was freely inspired of the Roman Pantheon. Measuring 220 by 250 feet along its principal stage, it was arranged in a rectangle, in the center of which was a square. The blaze of the 180 feet above the square was a dome supported by four pendentive massive on pillars quite as massive. At the ends is and western place of the Dome, two have cupolas sitting as a l' apse and the bay d' entry. This exploit d' engineering was even more incredible while considering than only the brick, the mortar and the stone were used. Although the Romans could former to manufacture concrete, these builders of l' Is n' did not make. Justinien embellished l' interior of richnesses. Four hectares of mosaics d' however shone with the ceiling, and the marble multicoloured shone in the stages, of the columns and the wall panels.

Less than six years after work qu' it started, Justinien monument with Christendom was completed. In l' year 558 mainly ploughed up because of many earthquakes in the area. Because the architects initial, Anthémius and Isidore, did not live any more, the nephew of this last, Isidore the Young person, received the task of rebuilding. This time, it lasted 400 years more before s' to break down again, and again rebuilt. In 1204, knoghts of the fourth crusade goes on the capital of l' Worsen Byzantine, stripping it and of Hagia Sophia thus without remorse qu' a chronicler called the most impressive plundering " since the creation of the monde.
" When l' hegemony of Rome ended 57 years later, l' Church of Holy Wisdom was deprived of richness étincelante. Encumbering buttresses were built for l' to support, but its days of glory, and those of Constantinople, were car at its end. In 1453, the sultan Mohammed II massed l' Othoman army opposite the city. After 53 days of seat, large capital of l' Worsen Byzantine capitulated, and the winner walked towards the city and directly in Hagia Sophia. Its oulémas recited a Moslem prayer, and the sultan declared stone angular of l' A mosque is Christianity.
During almost 500 years, it remained such, its mosaics bleached with lime to hide the figures “idolâtre” of l' man. Koranic inscriptions were placed in the four corners, under the cupola, four minarets were set up with l' angle of the external perimeter; gilded a bronze crescent replaced metal large cross basilica crowning. Although modifications offended the Christians, the mosque of Holy Wisdom profited d' a place of high regard among the followers of l' Islam. At the 20th century, Turkish leader Kemal Ataturk regarded the structure as a unifying symbol for l' Is and l' West. It closed the mosque in 1932, with discovered its mosaics Medeival, Hagia Sophia and reopened like museum in 1934. Nearly 15 centuries after Justinien, it draws up like a monument at the same time human and divine wisdom.