AROUND THE WORLD MONUMENT'S FACT FILE - ST. SOPHIA, ISTANBUL

 By: I.C. - YEAR 5B


NAME:
Saint Sophia Cathedral.

CITY: Istanbul

COUNTRY: Turkey

CAPITAL CITY: Ankara,Anatolia

CONTINENT: Asia and Europe, is transcontinental

LANGUAGE SPOKEN: Turkish

INFORMATION ABOUT THE MONUMENT: 

  • It was designed by the Ionian architect and physicist, Isidore of Miletus, and the Lydian mathematician and architect, Anthemius of Tralles.
  • It was inaugurated in 537, to serve as an orthodox cathedral of the oriental rite,