In the Turkish city of Istanbul, which straddles two continents, Europe and Asia, there is a magnificent and peculiar building. At first glance, the huge square platform is covered with a crimson circular dome, which is clearly a church.

However, a little attention was shown that there were four white minarets around the dome, and it was clear that this seemed to be another mosque.

Looking at such a peculiar style of building, Jin Ciyu and Yin Ruzhen, who were busy eating chestnuts, had to stop.

"What is this?" Jin Ciyu said to Sun Shaoye with some doubts: "Didn't you say that we are going to the restaurant Ayasophia Museum today, where is this?" ”

In the morning, she stood with Sun Shaoye, and Li Meiyan, who had been here, immediately said: "Teacher N, this is the Ayasophia Museum." ”

“o？”

Yin Ruzhen also looked at this building in disbelief, which looked like a church and a mosque, and couldn't come back to her senses for a long time.

"Teacher, this building has undergone great political, cultural, and religious changes in the 14500 years at the junction of Europe and Asia. Along with these changes, the building also has several attributes. Originally a church, it was converted into a mosque and now a historical museum. ”

"Oh, I see......"

Yin Ruzhen sighed a little.

"So many people?!"

Looking at the queue that formed a long line and wanted to go in to visit, Sun Shaoye and the four sisters had to honestly line up at the back of the line.

Originally known as Hagia Sophia, the Aasoas Museum is one of the finest buildings left in history.

As a heritage that has survived the history of human architecture to date. This great, spectacular, and splendid Aya Sofia Cathedral is a unique example of religious architecture in the world. It is also a product of the convergence of Eastern and Western cultures.

The Ayasophia Museum was a Christian church during the reign of the Roman Empire in 916. As a church, it is an imposing rectangular stone building. The huge dome above, 31 meters in diameter, is 55 meters above the ground. There are 40 large glass windows around the bottom and 4 majestic arches, which is quite a classic-dǐng-diǎn-small-say,.◎.≯os_(); type of Byzantine architecture.

But in 1453, after the fall of the Byzantine Empire, the ****** Turks built 4 minarets outside the church. In the 481 years since, the thousand-year-old cathedral has been turned into a mosque.

Until 1935, after the establishment of the Republic of Turkey. The hybrid of this church and mosque was converted into a museum.

When the long line gradually moved forward, Sun Shaoye and his party of five also stepped into this stormy but far-reaching building.

Stepping on the threshold of this 70-year-old museum, the pedestrian passes through a 50 or 60-metre-long front porch that leads to the "Imperial Gate" of Guò, which was once reserved for emperors and sultans.

Deeply influenced by his father, although Sun Shaoye majored in economics rather than history, he had the genetic material of his genes. It still makes him have a deep interest in history.

Sun Shaoye, who has been here once, is very interested in the architectural style and the historical events that have happened here. Nature is quite familiar.

So, in this church, Sun Shaoye once again became a non-professional travel commentator.

Accompanied by his commentary. Not only did the four sisters listen to it with relish, but even the staff who followed behind them. I can't wait to come to him and listen carefully to his explanation.

Go through the 'Imperial Gate'. A group of five people came to the main part of the building, which is the nave that serves as a church and the prayer hall that serves as a mosque.

It is a huge dome-shaped hall with forty arched skylights built around the dome, from which the outside light spills in heartily.

Seeing such a magnificent building, everyone couldn't help but sigh.

Carrying the cloth into the main hall, everyone felt that the light did not come in from the outside, but spontaneously appeared in the main hall.

Under the bright light, several huge marble columns around the main hall were radiating a glittering light. Some of these cylinders are green, while others are purple.

In ****** religion, green is a symbol of peace, while purple is the "holy color" revered by the Byzantine emperors. The coexistence of the two colors shows that both Christianity and ****** religion have had a heavy influence here.

"NNA, look here."

Sun Shaoye's pretty good explanation just now made the sisters' trust in him unconsciously increase. So as soon as they heard his voice, everyone turned their heads and looked in the direction of his finger.

"NNA, where we are now is the first floor of the side corridors on both sides of the main hall, no matter where we go, as long as we look up, we can see the holy icons painted on the dǐng shed, and the inlaid icons on these walls around us are also holy images."

Hearing Sun Shaoye say this, Jin Ai, who is a Christian, hurriedly drew a cross on his chest.

"The Virgin, the Child, the saints and the angels, are the most common statues of the Catholic and Protestant churches." Pointing to the sacred icons that were being constructed and restored on the side, Sun Shaoye continued: "Most of the sacred iconostasis paintings we see now are works from the time of Justinian onwards. ”

"Why destroy it?"

"Because a long, long time ago, there was a very heated debate in the Byzantine Empire over the issue of icons. Some people are for it, some people are against it, and in short, this controversy has caused many works of art to be destroyed. ”

"Hey," Yin Ruzhen suddenly sighed, "I don't know if I'm old or what's wrong, when I saw such a magnificent building, my first thought was how many people were torn off to build this building." ”

Yin Ruzhen's words caused everyone to smile slightly, and the bad feelings caused by hearing that the building was damaged just now gradually dissipated.

After explaining the details of the place carefully, everyone scattered in twos and threes, and each visited what they wanted to see.

Lee Mi-yeon, Kim Ai-yeon, and Yoon Yeo-jung formed a small team, while Son Shaoye followed, behind Kim Ci-ok, who likes to photograph modern art, in a museum with a strong historical style.

Whenever Jin Ciyu put historical objects and didn't shoot them, but went to shoot light bulbs and young people of modern art, Sun Shaoye always cried and laughed, but he could only be a small follower honestly. (To be continued.) )