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To: drpix
It's beautiful, but I don't know how big the resemblence is.


3 posted on 01/24/2013 5:43:07 AM PST by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: PLMerite
Yes it is beautiful, but it is not a mosque, it is a basilica (church) and it was built by the Romans of the Eastern Roman empire, who later became known as the Byzantines.

After Mehmed II's conquest of the city in 1453, Hagia Sophia was converted to a mosque

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/haso/hd_haso.htm

16 posted on 01/24/2013 6:12:50 AM PST by jpsb
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To: PLMerite

Next they will be complaining that the SuperDome resembles it.


41 posted on 01/24/2013 7:32:12 AM PST by BwanaNdege ("To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"- Voltaire)
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