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Hagia Sophia Influence

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Influence of Hagia Sophia on the Construction of Dome in Mosque Architecture
Dr. Saqer Sqour1
Abstract—This paper discusses the influence of the revolutionary pendentive dome of the 6th century church Hagia Sophia on building domes. The paper aims to track the impact of the structure of the dome of Hagia Sophia on Muslim mosques. It, also aimed to compare the Hagia Sophia building with selected Ottoman mosques. The study has begun analyzing the construction of the dome of Hagia Sophia. Its structure comes due the transition from erecting half spherical dome on circular plan to be above square plan. Further, a creative architectural component in the history of domes helped to achieve such transition that is the pendentive arches. These arches …show more content…

by Caliph Abd al-Malik, half a century after the death of the Prophet Muhammad [ ].
The diameter of the outer dome is 21 meters, the inner dome 20 meters. The original 1st century outer dome was copper. Hence, It was changed to lead in the 9th century [ ]. Fig. 5 represents Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, Palestine, (exterior) (Section) and (Interior) [ ]
The dome has the same diameter and height; it bears more than the cupolas of Byzantine churches, for, being made of wood. Its weight does not compel, as in vaults made of stone, those buttresses or side cupolas that weight down the external outline of Hagia Sophia and the monuments inspired by it [ ]
Umayyad Masjid, Eagle Dome:
Damascus, Syria:
The Dome of the Eagle (Qubbat Al-Nisr) is considered one of the architectural best parts of the Omayyad Mosque. It was so named because the architect who built it imagined the dome as the head of an eagle, the tracepts as its body and the aisles at its right and left as its wings.
An Arab historian wrote: if a person looks at Eagle Dome from a certain distance he will have the impression of seeing an eagle. The head is the cupola, body is the prayer hall, and wings are the walls [

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