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ii. How the context, building period and evolution makes the building historically significant and meaningful?
Hagia Irene is the first church built in Canstatinople and it is also the only church that was not turned into a mosque after Ottamans conquered Canstatinople.Byzantine architecture had been leftover some of the
history significant and meaningful for architectures history until today.
The Context:
. "Byazatine Christianity Art in Hagia Sophia ." [Online image] 31 September 2015. <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Jesus-Christ-from-Hagia-Sophia.jpg>.
Practicing christianity to replaced the gods of antiquity as the official religion of the culturally and religiously. Used Roman law, and Greek and Roman culture to maintain a high organised government cantered
on the court and its great cities.
Building Period:
Evolution :
. "Constantine and Juntinian lunette mosaic ." [Online image] 31 September 2015. <http://www.medievalists.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Constantine-and-Ju
Beside that, the Vaults was decorated by Mosaic to imagery befit Byzantine culture, which emphasised the power of a sole emperor and the authority of one true religion.
References
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