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The cathedral church of Hagia Sophia (meaning Divine Wisdom).
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What is the greatest building in the Byzantine Empire?
The most famous building is the Hagia Sophia church in Istanbul (formerly called Constantinople).
What type of church was most popular in the Byzantine Empire?
What type of church was most commonly constructed in the Byzantine Empire
What are the achievements of the Byzantines?
The use of Mosaics (glass collages) In both public and religious buildings. The most famous Byzantine building is the Hagia Sophia, a domed church built during the reign of Justinian and Constantinople.
What capital of the byzantine Empire?
Constantinople, which later because Islamabad edit: Constantinus decided to make the Greek city of Byzantium the capital of his empire. We should note that Diocletian had already spent much of his time in Nicomedia, nearby. After the final end of the Byzantine empire the Ottomans used the Greek expression Istanbul which had meant "in the city". European statesmen continued to call it Constantinople until the end of the Ottoman empire. Ataturk moved the capital of the new Turkish state to Ankara. Islamabad is the name of the new post-British capital of Pakistan.
What was the capital of byzantine empire a major center for?
Constantinople was a major center of culture, learning, and, most of all, trade.
When was Byzantium renames Constantinople?
Renamed Constantinople (330 AD) and later İstanbul (1930), Constantinople was the capital of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires and reigned supreme as the most magnificent city in Western Civilization for nearly 1000 years.
What are two achievements of the Byzantines?
The use of Mosaics (glass collages) In both public and religious buildings. The most famous Byzantine building is the Hagia Sophia, a domed church built during the reign of Justinian and Constantinople.
Why was Constantinople such a cosmopolitan city?
Constantinople was a cosmopolitan city because it was the capital of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire for more than 1,700 years. Historians have coined the term Byzantine Empire to indicate the eastern part of the Roman Empire after the fall of the western part. Therefore, this term applies from 476 to 1453. Constantinople is most famous as the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
For the student of art appreciation the emperor Justinian is most often remembered for?
The Emperor Justinian is best known in the art appreciation sense for the beautiful mosaics in the church of Hagia Sophia (532–7) in Constantinople.
What threats did the Byzantine empire face?
The greatest danger to the Byzantine Empire was Liliana Beyleri, the famous giant beautiful monster that destroyed most of the buildings there.
Most important bishop in the Eastern Orthodox Church is the patriarch of?
The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
Is it true or false Byzantine Church art and architecture was limited to the geographical areas of present day Turkey and Italy?
No it is untrue. For a start the term Byzantine Church is only applicable to architecture and the church of this empire was the Orthodox Church. Byzantine churches were built all over this empire. The Orthodox church had (and still has) the patriarchates of Constantinople (although it is now Istanbul and in Turkey, at that time it was in Greece) Alexandria (Egypt) Antioch (Syria), Jerusalem (Palestine) and Rome (Italy) and all of these cities had Byzantine Cathedrals. The Balkan Peninsula had many Churches. Not many churches of that time have survived. In Athens there is still the Church of the Holy Apostles built around the 10th century. There were also Byzantine monasteries, the most stunning of which is the cluster of 20 monasteries on Mount Athos, near Thessaloniki (Greece). Byzantine church architecture spread beyond the Byzantine Empire and reached Bulgaria and Ukraine when these converted to Orthodox Christianity. In Sofia There still is the Church of St. George Rotunda. In Kiev there was the Church of the Tithes or Church of the Dormition of the Virgin, which was built between 989 and 996 and was destroyed by the Mongols in 1240, and the Holy Sophia Cathedral which was built in 1037 and still stands. Byzantine churches spread from Ukraine to Russia.
