Hadzi-Kurt Mosque (Tabačica)
Mostar, BA
The Hadzi-Kurt Mosque was built between the 16th and 17th centuries on the right bank of the Neretva River.
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Mostar, BA
The Hadzi-Kurt Mosque was built between the 16th and 17th centuries on the right bank of the Neretva River.
Hafslo, NO
The Hafslo church is a wooden church built in 1878 according to the project of the architect J. Faye. The present church replaces the Stave church in Hafslo, dating from around 1200, which had no heating system.
Sarpsborg, NO
Hafslund Church was consecrated on December 18, 1891. It is constructed in a rectangular shape and is built of wood. Hafslund Church was originally built as a parish house. The church was restored in 1962.
Samnanger, NO
The Haga church in Samnanger is a modernist wooden church dating from 1995. The architect of the church is Helge Hjertholm.
Heeg, NL
In Heeg there was a medieval church dedicated to Christopher . In 1745 this church was replaced by a church with a dome tower due to dilapidation. In 1747 this church received stained glass by Ype Staak . In 1840 the church was demolished due to an increase in the church community, with the exception of the front church and tower, and replaced by the current three-sided closed hall church . The wooden facade tower was built in 1797 on the substructure from 1745. In the tower with a constricted spire hangs a bell (1616) by bell founders Johan Franciscus and Thomas Simon.
Istanbul, TR
Hagia Sophia is the former Greek Orthodox Christian patriarchal cathedral, later an Ottoman imperial mosque and now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey. Built in 537 AD in the Middle Ages, it was famous in particular for its massive dome. It was the world's largest building and an engineering marvel of its time. It is considered the finest example of Byzantine architecture and is said to have "changed the history of architecture".
Bayswater, GB
Saint Sophia Cathedral is a Greek Orthodox church on Moscow Road in the Bayswater area of London. It was consecrated as the Church of the Holy Wisdom on 5 February 1882 by Antonios, Metropolitan of Corfu, as a focus for the prosperous Greek community that had settled in London, particularly around Paddington, Bayswater and Notting Hill. Today, in addition to regular services, it hosts a Greek polyphonic choir, Byzantine music, and an associated school in which pupils discover the history and language of Greece and take Greek dancing lessons.
Białystok, PL
Hagia Sophia is an Orthodox parish church inspired by the Constantinopolite Church of Hagia Sophia. Construction began in 1987 and ended in 1994.
Thessaloniki, GR
The Hagia Sophia Temple is a rare example of an iconoclastic church (726-787) combining the features of a cross-domed church and a basilica with three naves. Hagia Sophia was built at the turn of the 7th and 8th centuries on a 5th century church destroyed by an earthquake. Converted into a mosque by the Turks in 1523, it remained a place of Islamic worship until 1912 and the return of Thessaloniki into the Greek fold. In 1988, as a paleochristian and Byzantine monument, it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Thessaloniki, GR
The Basilica of St. Demetrius is a church founded on the site of the Roman baths in the 4th century. After earthquakes and fires in the 7th century, a new basilica was erected. During the Turkish reign, in 1493, it was transformed into a mosque "Kasımiye Camii", until the return of the city in Greece in 1912. During a fire in 1917, the building was badly damaged. The restoration works of the basilica began in the 30s and continued until 1948. In 1988, the basilica was inscribed on the list of World Heritage sites along with other "Paleochristian and Byzantine monuments of Thessaloniki" .
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