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The Byzantine Church of Ayios Dimitrios in Thessaloniki, Greece, features a brick facade with arched windows, a bell tower, and a courtyard with potted plants. Figure 201: Interplay between architecture and mosaics in the monastery church at Daphni, Greece, 11th century, crowned with a Byzantine dome mosaic Christ Pantokrator. Byzantine quincunx church
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Hagia Sophia. Istanbul, Turkey. Constantinople. Church of the Holy Wisdom. Church of the Divine Wisdom. Mosque.
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Byzantine architecture, building style of Constantinople (now Istanbul, formerly ancient Byzantium) after ad 330. Byzantine architects were eclectic, at first drawing heavily on Roman temple features. Their combination of the basilica and symmetrical central-plan (circular or polygonal) religious structures resulted in the characteristic Byzantine Greek-cross-plan church, with a square central mass and four arms of equal length. The most distinctive feature was the domed roof. To allow a dome to rest above a square base,...

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