The list. Unlike all others the most significant difference between these buildings is the number of minarets. A minaret is a tower on the side of the mosque. The main purpose of this tower is to make the call to prayer in the old days before the microphone system. The blue mosque has minarets. Hagia Sophia has minarets. Besides the number of minarets another difference is the history. Blue Mosque is an Ottoman construction. Hagia Sophia is older than Blue Mosque and it is a Roman building. The difference is about years.
The building has several names. The Turks call the building Ayasofya. In English the building St. This name causes some problems. The majority believe that there is a saint named Sophia and the name comes from her. But the original name of the building is Hagia Sophia. The name comes Iceland Phone Number List from ancient Greek. The meaning of Hagia Sophia in ancient Greek is Divine Wisdom. The dedication of the church was to Jesus Christ. But the original name of the church was Megalo Ecclesia . Big Church or Mega Church was the name of the original building. of Orthodox Christianity there are beautiful examples of mosaics in the building.
One of these mosaics shows Justinian the st presenting the modal of the church and Constantine the Great presenting Jesus and Mary the modal of the city. This was a tradition in the Roman era. When an emperor orders a building his mosaic should decorate the building. From the Ottoman era there are many beautiful works of calligraphy. The most famous are the holy names in Islam which decorated the building for about years. Another is graffiti that dates back to the th century. A Viking soldier named Haldvan writes his name in one of the galleries on the second floor of the Hagia Sophia. This name can still be seen