GK
WORLD HISTORY
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Question
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How did Hagia Sophia influence other areas of the world?
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It became a hub for many languages and nations to spread Islam and trade.
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It was the forerunner of the modern church in northeast Jerusalem
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It became a mighty synagogue for Jews and Muslims to worship together
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It was the model for many buildings in churches in southern Europe and the Middle East.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -It served as a center of religious, political, and artistic life for the Byzantine world and has provided us with many useful scholarly insights into the period. It was also an important site of Muslim worship after Sultan Mehmed II conquered Constantinople in 1453 and designated the structure a mosque.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Hagia Sophia combines a longitudinal basilica and a centralized building in a wholly original manner, with a huge 32-metre (105-foot) main dome supported on pendentives and two semidomes, one on either side of the longitudinal axis.
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